Solar Media Staff

Toyota’s Burnaston manufacturing plant near Derby, now boasts a 4.1MW ground-mounted solar array. The array, which is large enough to cover 12 football pitches, will provide enough electricity to power the construction of 7,000 hybrid vehicles a year.

The Great Yorkshire Show is now home to one of the largest solar arrays in the area after the completion of a 245kWp solar array at its headquarters in Harrogate.

In its first ever major report on renewables, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has estimated that global renewable power generation will increase by over 40 percent over the next five years.

The CBI has used its strongest rhetoric yet in urging politicians to adopt a smarter, more consistent approach to energy and climate change policy.

As the UK solar market progressed past the gigawatt mark the term “grid parity” begun to creep into industry players’ lexicon, with many suggesting that solar power could become a serious part of the wider energy mix in the next few years. But, is this concept actually realistic in the UK, or is the idea of installing solar panels without a subsidy completely out of reach?

The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has called on independent renewable generation developers to supply the department with evidence to support claims that the Power Purchase Agreement market has deteriorated.

Newcastle United Football Club has secured its long-term target of achieving Carbon Trust Standard accreditation after installing a raft of environmental measures that have trimmed the club’s utility bills by almost a quarter of a million in just three years.

“Feed-in tariff cuts ‘will kill solar industry stone dead’ ” shouted the headline in the Guardian way back in October when the Government announced its solar subsidies strategy. Fast forward nine months and the solar energy market, although battered and bruised, still offers one of the most viable investments around today.

A new training programme developed by the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA) will help provide managers and others with the necessary knowledge, understanding and skills to improve their organisation’s environmental management and sustainability performance is now available from the British Safety Council.

Solarcentury has announced that the installation of London’s largest solar array is half way complete today as the 2,200th solar module was installed on the roof of Blackfriars station.