Solar Media Staff

Contracts for Differences will “not be the focus” of solar investors and developers in the year ahead according to a survey conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Solar Trade Association which also raised concerns over spiralling grid connection costs.

Global solar giant Hanwha Q Cells has bolstered its active UK solar portfolio by completing an 8.1MW solar farm in South Gloucestershire.

Solar developer SPI has sold its entire stake in the Grange Farm solar project to an investment fund managed by the infrastructure group at investment managers Blackrock.

European solar PV trade group SolarPower Europe, formerly EPIA, said cumulative global PV demand could reach 540GW in 2020, during the opening presentations at the 2015 Intersolar Europe conference.

Former energy minister, Greg Barker has urged the solar industry to focus on achievable lobbying wins which operate within the government’s tight financial constraints.

Solar Media appoints Finlay Colville to head new market intelligence division.

Kent-based solar installer Blue Sky Energy Solutions has secured a “colossal” investment worth £50 million from German developer Wirsol.

Canadian Solar has closed a £35 million project finance agreement with Investec for a group of UK solar farms.

The UK could be benefitting from rooftop solar-generated electricity at parity with retail prices and solar farm-generated electricity at parity with new gas CCGT station prices by the end of the decade, according to the Solar Trade Association’s Solar Independence Plan for Britain.

Nominations for 2015’s Solar Power Portal Awards are currently open. Returning for its third year, the Solar Power Portal Awards will take place on 13 October, the first evening of the sixth Solar Energy UK exhibition in Birmingham.