Asset management firm Aquila Capital has acquired a 7.2MW solar farm near Banwell in Bristol as it looks to increase its portfolio of PV assets in the UK.
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.
Manchester-based contractor, Styles&Wood has completed two solar PV arrays for The Fire Fighters Charity at its rehabilitation centres in Penrith and Littlehampton.
The huge rush of projects commissioned in time to beat the April RO deadline has created a sea of opportunity. Liam Stoker finds out why Foresight’s Ricardo Pineiro is ready to strike while the iron is hot.
Allowing ‘established’ renewables access to the ring-fenced ‘less established’ budget under the Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme could slash £600 million a year off the cost of meeting the UK’s 2020 renewable energy target, according to analysis carried out by Baringa Partners.
Solar Media, the publisher of Solar Power Portal, has launched a new market intelligence unit, designed specifically for companies active in the solar industry.
The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has doubled its estimate for solar deployment in the UK throughout Q1 2015, upgrading its total deployment forecast to 6.5GW.
The EU has opened an investigation into Malaysian and Taiwanese solar imports that could see the countries added to the scope of the Commission’s trade tariffs on Chinese modules.
