Solar Media Staff

The Conservative Party’s decision to sell off a stake in the Green Investment Bank (GIB) has been slammed by senior politicians and Conservative think-tanks.

Ever since large-scale solar hit the UK, the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has struggled with keeping track of cumulative solar PV capacity deployed in the UK. Finlay Colville explains why this has been tricky and why Solar Intelligence’s data solves the problem.

Renewable energy generation in the UK reached a record 21.1TWh in Q1 2015, bolstered by a significant increase in solar PV capacity.

Ground-mount project developer Inazin Power is to launch a commercial rooftop business, Solar Power Portal can reveal.

The Princess Royal Sports Arena in Boston, Lincolnshire has just seen the installation of a 96kWp Solar PV System by Louth based Renewable Energy company Scenergy Limited.

The Solar Intelligence team at Solar Media can exclusively reveal that Inazin Power – one of the longest-established leading project developers in the UK ground-mount sector – is expanding its market presence in the UK solar industry through large commercial rooftops.

PV Tech will present a new international category at its sister site Solar Power Portal’s annual awards ceremony this year.

Solar investment vehicle Foresight Solar Fund has continued on its recent acquisition spree by signing a binding contract to acquire a 30MW solar farm in Nottinghamshire.

Any changes to business rates should not be a disincentive for solar and there is an argument to draw a distinction between utility-scale and rooftop solar generation, the Solar Trade Association has said.

Energy and climate change secretary Amber Rudd has said that details regarding the next contracts for difference allocation round are to be released “in the near future”.