Solar Media Staff

Liverpool drinks giant, Halewood International, has installed one of the region’s largest solar arrays – a huge 250kWp array on the roof of its Huyton production plant. The company, which produces well-known brands such as Lambrini, Crabbies and Tsingtao, turned to Manchester-based renewable energy specialists, Reef Solutions, to design and install the solar power plant.

Renewable investment company, Abundance Generation, has announced the launch of its second crowd-funded renewable project – a solar energy venture in the South Downs, designed to help fund the installation of free solar panels in order to provide free electricity for locals.

Northern Ireland’s Department of Enteprise, Trade and Investment (DETI) has published its responses to a consultation over the Northern Ireland Renewable Obligation (NIRO).

The UK’s largest renewable electricity supplier, Good Energy, has announced that is investigating the possibility of installing 110MW worth of large-scale solar and onshore wind projects across the UK to help the company generate more of its own renewable electricity.

German solar giant, Centrosolar, has launched an English-language version of its Centrocheck solar planning tool for the UK solar market. The online portal is designed to help UK installers create fully-customised system designs as well as providing homeowners an easy way to evaluate the solar potential of their property. 

The latest solar installation figures published by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) show that, in the run up to August 1, installations increased by 115 percent from 3,855 in the beginning of July to 8,305 for the week ending July 29. Last week alone, installations rose by 62 percent over the previous week – from 26MW to 42MW of installed capacity.

Humans have always made use of solar energy. When man’s earliest ancestor realised that a patch of sunlight was warmer than the shade, or that rocks heated all day by the sun remained warm long into the night, solar energy was being used.

Mitsubishi Motors’ UK head office has now become a solar-fuelled power plant thanks to the successful installation of a 50kWp solar array on its roof in Cirencester, Gloucestershire.

Caplor Energy has announced that it has been awarded the contract to install a commercial-scale solar PV system on one of the country’s largest business parks.

The UK’s largest commercial solar developer, Octopus Investments and its dedicated in-house developer Lightsource Renewable Energy, has reiterated its commitment to the nascent UK solar market despite new legislation that significantly reduces support for the technology across the UK.