Solar Media Staff

The EU has approved the Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme under its state aid guidelines calling it a “fine example” of a market-based decarbonisation policy.

The UK subsidiary of insolvent German distributor Wagner & Co has bought out its German-held stake and re-launched as an independent entity.

British Solar Renewables has revealed that is has started construction of an 8.7MW solar farm in Dorset.

German developer Goldbeck Solar has started construction of a 37.3MW solar farm in Bournemouth, Dorset.

Waverney District Council has approved plans to install a 7.25MW solar farm at Playters New Farm in Beccles, Suffolk.

The government has published proposals to lift fuel poor homes to a Band C energy efficiency rating by 2030.

Energy and climate change secretary Ed Davey has confirmed that the government will not amend the Fourth Carbon Budget, resisting reported pressure from the chancellor George Osborne.

A proposal to install an 11.5MW solar farm at Tyle’r-fedwen Farm, Cwmafan has been approved by Neath Port Talbot Council.

Sainsbury’s has announced that it has agreed a £200 million corporate green loan that it will use to invest in its carbon reduction and sustainability projects.

Solar farm deployment has traditionally been focused to the south west of England but has slowly begun to spread across the whole of the UK. Finlay Colville analyses where and why developers are heading north.