Solar Media Staff

In a year when large-scale, ground-mounted solar dominated UK deployment, it may come as a surprise to many that the UK ended up in sixth position globally for the most solar PV capacity installed in the small-scale segment.

Now I don’t know if you were affected by the power cuts over the holiday period, but some of the media coverage regarding the power outages made me consider the attitude we have to our electricity supply.

Ofgem has admitted that it has not seen the details which underpin Labour’s claim that British households have been overcharged by £3.8 billion over the last four years.

The Chinese government has excluded almost 80% of operating manufacturers, including Shunfeng and LDK Solar, from benefitting from domestic support measures as it looks to curb oversupply and increase the quality of its solar manufacturing sector.

Hanwha SolarOne has announced that it will be supplying Belgian solar developer Ikaros Solar with 11.5MW of modules.

2013 proved to be another tumultuous year for the solar industry in the UK, despite early optimism that the UK solar market had finally managed to secure a steady policy framework with sensible degressions, the EU anti-dumping investigation threw all this into disarray.

Renewable monitoring companies Inaccess and SenseOne Technologies have announced that they have entered into a strategic cooperation agreement.

China Sunergy has agreed a deal with Lightsource Renewable Energy to purchase the Chinese module manufacturer’s 5MW project in Cornwall which was completed in March 2013.

Renewable energy supplier, Good Energy has been granted provisional planning permission for a 49.9MW solar plant, the largest under development in the UK.

Hanergy has said it was in takeover talks with a key PV installer to contribute to its work with a major “household furniture retail chain”. The company has already sealed a thin-film module supply agreement with retail furniture chain IKEA in the UK.