Solar Media Staff

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.

The UK’s solar industry has been dealt a blow following fresh cuts to the subsidies afforded to it by government, but Jerry Hamilton of Rexel believes the industry should be looking forwards not backwards.

The UK government has called time on solar support, onshore wind and the Green Deal at a time when the country’s democratic machinery is in snooze mode. The industry has to make an even bigger noise in order to be heard and that process starts with you.