Solar Media Staff

Renewable energy supplier Good Energy has commissioned two new solar farms and announced a further drawdown from its debt facility to refinance an existing project.

The UK’s ground-mount solar industry has been providing excellent business opportunities for site planners and planning consultants, in the past few years. However, changes by the government to renewable obligations (RO) subsidies available for both the solar industry and the onshore wind industry are now creating a greater number of individual site opportunities across a much wider range of planning firms.

The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has confirmed that there were more than 15,000 solar PV installations in London as of last month, totalling more than 52MW in generation capacity.

The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has urged the government to take immediate action to meet its commitments on climate change and criticised it over recent policy decisions.

Householders near the UK’s largest community-owned solar farm will be able to consume the electricity it generates as part of a new ‘locally grown energy’ trial.

The UK’s largest solar PV operator, Lightsource Renewable Energy has inked a two-year deal with the FIA Formula E Championship. Solar Power Portal was on hand at London’s inaugural Formula E race to discover why solar PV and Formula E make for a perfect match.

Subsidies earmarked for solar could be cut as the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) battles to keep Levy Control Framework (LCF) spending under control, a new report issued by market intelligence firm Cornwall Energy has claimed.

The CEO of Formula E has told Next Energy News that he views solar as the “future of world energy”. In an exclusive interview with Solar Power Portal’s sister site, Alejandro Agag said that, while it’s key focus was to “change the perception of electric cars”, the championship also has a focus on upstream energy developments.

South Cambridge District Council is to install solar panels on 1,000 additional council houses, adding to the council’s already extensive PV roll-out.

The government’s recent attack on onshore wind farms has been a long time coming, the Conservative manifesto having stated that in the event of an election win the party would end “new” public subsidy for them and let local people have the final say on wind farm applications.