Cwmbran-based Ikaros Solar has signed a contract to install 150kW of solar photovoltaics for a poultry farmer near Ashbourne in Derbyshire. Installed over three sites, the solar panels will provide renewable energy for Overbrook Farms’ specialist requirements.
Yorkshire-based companies GMI Renewable Energy Group, Town Centre Securities and Rex Procter & Partners have launched what is thought to be the largest city centre solar photovoltaics installation in the UK. Constructed on the roof of Clarence Dock Car Park in Leeds, the system is expected to supply around 15% of the car park’s electricity.
UK solar investor and developer Orta Solar has launched a series of photovoltaics operations and maintenance packages to suit systems from 20kW to 5MW. The company, which delivers commercial, agricultural and corporate roll-outs of solar PV systems, has 90MW and constructed or financed 30MW of UK solar to date.
Just two months after launching a £20 million investment package for community buildings in Cornwall, Community Energy Plus has now announced it will extend its offer.
After weeks of silence the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has finally announced that the consultation on extensions to the large-scale feed-in tariff has ended and the loophole is now closed.
PV Solar UK recently launched Scotland’s first solar photovoltaic (PV) training academy with Energy, Enterprise and Tourism Minister Fergus Ewing, MSP.
Mitsubishi Electric launched the second phase of its Green Gateway philosophy at the recent World Green Building Week, organised by the UK Green Building Council.
Proinso, a company specialising in distribution of modules, inverters, trackers and fixed structures for solar photovoltaic (PV) installations, has just opened a new office and logistics warehouse just outside London.