Solar Media Staff

Lightsource Renewable Energy has announced that it is investigating installing a 6.5MW solar farm at a local farming business near Yelverton, Devon.

The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has announced that it has awarded a share of over £5 million to two British energy storage entrepreneurs.

Solar and wind farms are an accepted part of the Cornish landscape, according to a new survey of holidaymakers.

The Prime Minister’s pledge to “roll back green charges” put the whole green industry in a tailspin. Thankfully, despite Michael Fallon’s best efforts, the Department of Energy and Climate Change has confirmed that none of solar’s support mechanisms will be included in Cameron’s ‘green levies review’. Here’s a roundup of some of the best tweets as the industry was dragged through the latest twist and turns of the ‘solarcoaster’.

The latest solar PV installation figures released by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) reveal that the domestic market has hit 1.3GW.

UK energy minister Michael Fallon has said that the coalition government is scrutinising all green levies, undermining the Department of Energy and Climate Change’s recent reassurance that renewable support is not being reviewed.

The Renewable Energy Association (REA) has warned that mixed political messages run the risk of undermining new jobs and investment in the UK’s renewable sector.

PassivSystems has agreed a contract with Freetricity to provide monitoring for the company’s latest £50 million ‘free solar’ campaign.

Doncaster Rovers has become the first football league club to install solar panels on its stadium, following the completion of a 50kWp solar array at the Keepmoat Stadium.

The news that Hinkley Point achieved a strike price of £92.50 per MWh, nearly four times the amount originally proposed, cannot but rankle with the British solar industry.