Solar Media Staff

In the first of a two part blog on EPCs in the UK solar industry, the top 10 EPCs are revealed. Part two discusses the share contributions of the Top-10 and the importance of lower tier EPC companies.

Media leaks and anonymous briefings on cuts to renewable energy subsidies from the UK government are undermining investor confidence the UK market, Solarcentury head of public affairs Seb Berry has said.

Plans to develop a 2.63MW solar farm next to a recycling plant in Reigate, Surrey, are to be deliberated by Reigate and Banstead Borough Council.

The Department for Energy and Climate Change is to proceed with significant cuts to subsidies available for solar projects and could announce the cuts “within weeks”, according to BBC World at One.

Japanese car manufacturer Nissan is to learn the fate of its plan to develop a 4.8MW solar farm at its Wearside manufacturing facility in Sunderland next week.

The renewables industry is in turbulent times. The surprise removal of the Climate Change Levy Exemption status, the closure of the Renewables Obligation to onshore wind, the imminent review of the feed-in tariff, the overspending of the Levy Control Framework and its implications for the second round of of Contacts for Difference (CfDs) are just a few current issues. It seems politics rather than pragmatism is calling the tune on renewables policy.

The judges for this year’s Solar Power Portal Awards have been confirmed.

Solar Impulse might have stolen this year’s headlines for solar-powered transport, however a 60-strong team of engineers at Cambridge University is aiming to match the aircraft’s successful summer when it competes in October’s Bridgestone World Solar Challenge.

The former minister of energy and climate change Greg Barker has been named the new president of the British Photovoltaic Association (BPVA).

UK think tank Policy Exchange has accused the Department for Energy and Climate Change of “reckless and wasteful” management of renewable subsidies and recommended sweeping cuts to the small-scale feed-in tariff to help curb an overspend.