Solar Media Staff

ET Solar, the China-based solar PV producer announced today the completion of a commercial 100kW rooftop project in the UK – further strengthening the company’s presence in Britain.

I can’t quite decide if we have the new procedure for estimating the annual performance of a solar PV system totally sorted (as detailed in the draft of the PV installation guide – Edition 3). I am aware that a number of people are now looking at it in some detail, so I thought it would be useful to describe the thinking behind the revised procedure.

Over the past few days I’ve been keeping a beady eye on the Ofgem PV installation figures as they crept ever closer to the 200MW mark for this FiT year. This afternoon I hit the refresh button and lo, we’ve surpassed it. Logging a total of 200.441MW, the FiT register is showing results that even the most optimistic of us never thought were possible.

The cost of a 50kW commercial solar photovoltaics (PV) system in the UK has now reached a price range of £100k to £130k. With the UK feed-in tariff set at 32.9p/kWh generated, I would argue that UK solar PV is currently in a bubble — one that serves up a golden opportunity for businesses to add solar PV to their property. David Owen’s excellent blog post on the new FiT, prices and the future for solar in the UK: Part 1 only serves to underline this point. In my opinion, it is unlikely that there will ever be a better time to act, so my advice would be: fill ‘yer boots!

UK-based solar company A-Sun has passed the IEC 61701 salt mist corrosion testing stage for its MCS accredited photovoltaic modules.

Independent renewable energy project developer TGC Renewables has now completed its 1.7MW Newquay-based solar farm and connected it to the National Grid. The Trevemper Farm scheme will provide renewable energy to the National Grid as well as a regular and regular and reliable income for the landowner and the local community.

UK Solar panel giant and specialist glass maker Romag plans to lift production capacity by 300 percent by the end of this year.

Aiming to boost solar photovoltaics installation monitoring and performance Enecsys has teamed up with Ember to bring wireless ZigBee communication technology to UK homes and businesses.

At a time when home energy bills seem to be rising by the minute, investing in renewable energy is now more important than ever. Installing green technologies such as solar panels can be relatively easy if you’re a homeowner, but not so simple if, like thousands of UK residents, you rent your property. Dealing with this very subject Tulloch Priest at Nottingham-based Priest Properties provides a helpful guide for solar installation on how best to convince letting agents that solar power is the way forward.

It’s almost one year since the Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) and rumours are beginning to fly around the UK solar industry as to what the upcoming Comprehensive Consultation on the feed-in tariff (FiT) holds. I decided it was time to investigate what people are actually saying, and to find out how much of what is being said…