Solar Media Staff

Cornwall Council has successfully proceeded with plans to install solar PV on more than 50 sites across Cornwall, including schools, colleges, libraries and leisure centres.

Sundog Energy has installed Cumbria’s largest commercial solar PV system at Lakeland Livestock Mart in Cockermouth.

Liverpool Council has pulled the plug on plans to install 4,000 solar PV systems on council-owned properties across the city.

The Court will rule on whether to grant the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) a hearing for its appeal against the High Court’s December ruling on UK solar feed-in tariffs. The Court of Appeal is expected to deliver its verdict at 10:30am on Wednesday, January 25.

A report published by Cambridge Modelling, which examined the impact of Governmental plans to reduce the level of subsidy afforded to solar PV technology in the UK, has warned that proposed cuts to the solar FiT rate will significantly delay grid parity.

The Property and Energy Professionals Association (PEPA), a trade body representing business engaged in the provision of Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) and Display Energy Certificates (DECs), has urged Government to reconsider its plans to fully introduce the Green Deal in October this year.

Germany-based solar photovoltaics manufacturer, Mage Solar has partnered with logistics company Kuehne +Nagel for the opening of new a warehouse and dispatch centre in Dagenham. The logistics centre will substantially cut down the lead-time Mage Solar’s British installation partners currently experience.

Anti-nuclear pressure group, Energy Fair, has submitted a formal complaint to the European Commission about subsidises afforded to nuclear power.

Yesterday morning we uncovered the news that Government was set to lock in the future of the UK solar industry by publishing what feed-in tariff rates will look like until at least April 1, 2012. Offering some much-needed, long-awaited, certainty to our extremely frustrated industry, the announcement has brought a welcome…

The Department of Energy and Climate Change has announced that it is tabling proposals before Government to provide certainty over feed-in tariff rates from March 3. A DECC representative has explained to Solar Power Portal why the department has taken the decision to table the proposals.