Solar Media Staff

Senseye co-founder Alexander Hill talks to Solar Power Portal about the UK’s “stagnant” O&M market, and how better solutions could help asset managers squeeze every last drop out of solar farms.

We ran a piece yesterday on Solar Power Portal, Revealed – the leading project developers of UK solar farms, showing the relative rankings of the top 120 project developers in the UK, out of a total of just over 180 the details of which can be found in the newly released go-to client database from Solar Media.

The government has announced that it will not be proceeding with the zero carbon Allowable Solutions scheme, a move which has been described as the “death knell” for Zero Carbon Homes.

Independent power producer Rame Energy is targeting the potentially lucrative UK rooftop solar market with its new UK-facing subsidiary Rame Solar.

Various solar developers and asset management firms have said that the UK government’s decision to scrap their exemption from the Climate Change Levy will have lasting effects on net asset value and revenues.

The newly-elected Conservative government has made it clear that it wants more solar to be installed across the UK’s mostly untapped commercial roofspace. Solar Power Portal spoke to Alex Cooke, general counsel at Kinspan Energy about the state of the UK’s commercial rooftop market and what can be done to unlock the 250,000-hectares of currently unused commercial roofspace.

Twenty years’ ago, Professor Sue Roaf had an ambition to power her home from the energy generated by the sun.

British Solar Renewables’ proposed solar farm at Rampisham Down would pose no threat to the local environment, a “ground breaking” ecological study has claimed.

A decision is set to be made this evening over a 5MW solar farm planned for development on the site of a former quarry.

Major UK PV distributor SegenSolar is to take its services into European markets after establishing a German subsidiary, SegenSolar GmbH.