Solar Media Staff

The third iteration of UK government support for renewable will be introduced in 2017. Gaynor Hartnell explores what implications the move to Contracts for Difference (CfDs) will have on the UK’s solar sector.

Dorset-based steel framing specialists, Corbin Industries, has invested £500,000 in new state-of-the-art Amada CNC computer controlled steel cutting, punching and folding machinery.

Argyll and Bute Council has appointed Campbell & Kennedy’s energy division, CK Energy, to install solar on eight schools across Argyll and Bute.

The Renewable Energy Association has criticised Conservative plans to stop subsidising new onshore wind if successful in the 2015 election.

Chinese inverter manufacturer, GoodWe, has installed its first energy-storage inverter in the UK.

Foresight Solar Fund has announced that it is now managing an operational portfolio of 100MW of UK solar assets.

TGE Group has agreed a financing deal with Macquarie to supply and install solar on commercial buildings.

Solar developer, Elgin Energy EsCo, has secured planning permission for a 5MW solar farm in Pembrokeshire.

A solar worker broke his back after falling six metres through the roof light of a barn in Northamptonshire.

RWE Supply & Trading, the German utility’s trading arm, has acquired its first solar farm project in the UK, a 37MW development on a disused airfield in Oxfordshire, England.