Solar Media Staff

Hamburg-based renewable energy firm Capital Stage is seeking new investments after refinancing two 5MWp projects in the UK.

In a normal world, if a market declined by an order of magnitude from one quarter to another, one would expect most of the industry participants to be looking for another career opportunity. But we are talking about the solar industry here, so normal benchmarks tend not to be in play too much.

A giant 48MW solar farm in Test Valley, Hampshire, has been given final approval by secretary of state for communities and local government Greg Clark.

Asset management firm John Laing Environmental Assets Group (JLEA) has continued to grow its solar portfolio by purchasing stakes in two solar farms for £20.37 million.

If DECC’s proposals to draw a line under new RO applications from 22 July 2015 end up being written into policy, then potentially one of the hardest hit will be pure-play developers of solar farms.

It seems that the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) *may* have learnt from its series of solar-related legal disputes. This time round, instead of taking immediate emergency action to revise subsidy rates the government has taken a rather more creative approach.

Ofgem has published the feed-in tariff (FiT) rates for solar PV from 1 October to 31 December.

A £4.5 billion trade deal which could see a UK developer construct the world’s largest solar plant in Turkey is back “on track” and could complete by October.

Bluefield European Solar Fund (BESF) has postponed its initial public offering as a result of “unfavourable market conditions”.

Green Party London Assembly member Jenny Jones has claimed the Conservative government is “determined to cool” the UK’s solar market and criticised a “failure of leadership” as the reason behind London’s faltering solar deployment.