Editor’s Blog

October 14, 2022
Solar Media’s head of market research Finlay Colville takes a look at one of the only solar farms to be developed on Grade 1 land, Crossens solar farm, being developed by Defra.
October 13, 2022
Solar Media’s head of market research Finlay Colville takes a look at the government departments surging forward with solar farms.
August 8, 2022
Ahead of the upcoming UK Solar Summer, Solar Media’s head of market research Finlay Colville takes a look at the speed with which all segments of the solar market are growing in the UK at the moment.
July 12, 2022
Solar Media’s head of market research Finlay Colville takes a look at last weeks CfD auction winners and how the projects are spread out around Britain.
July 7, 2022
Finlay Colville explores the themes underpinning solar deployment at all levels out to 2030, including supply chain challenges, planning trends and community engagement.
January 17, 2022
One of the most encouraging aspects of the UK solar industry during 2021 was the emergence of a sustainable commercial rooftop sector. Here, Finlay Colville, head of market research at SPP publisher Solar Media, discusses the types of companies that have been planning new PV builds since the start of 2019.
November 4, 2021
In an exclusive blog ahead of the launch of Solar Media’s new rooftop solar report, Finlay Colville reveals how UK solar rooftop deployment is set to exceed 500MW next year in what constitutes a landmark moment for the sector.
June 14, 2021
Ahead of Solar Media’s inaugural Utility Solar Summit, we caught up with head of market intelligence Finlay Colville to discuss the key trends in the UK’s solar sector currently and what people can expect to get out of the event.
April 15, 2021
The UK solar industry continued its sustained growth in a zero-subsidy environment, posting 175MWp-dc of new capacity in the 3 months to 31 March 2021 (Q1’21).
February 4, 2021
Utility-scale battery storage project activity started for real during 2020, with a strong pipeline of projects built up in the last few years and ready for deployment in 2021 and beyond. Solar Media Market Research’s Lauren Cook and Mollie McCorkindale take a look under the hood of Ireland’s battery storage pipeline.

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