It’s the day after the Solar Power Portal Awards and, following a slower than usual start to the morning, Solar Energy UK (SEUK) 2014 is back in full swing.
Last night saw the winners of the 2014 Solar Power Portal Awards crowned. The black tie dinner was an enormous success which saw the industry gather together under one roof to celebrate each others’ successes.
Returning for its fifth year, Solar Energy UK 2014 is set to the biggest show yet with pre-registrations up by 58% and upwards of 4,000 unique visitors expected.
Five years after its inception, Solar Energy UK (SEUK) has established itself as the number one UK event for all professionals within the solar industry – attracting over 170 exhibitors and 2,424 unique visitors from 42 countries last year alone.
Across more than 150 countries people took to the streets to demand action on climate change, renewable energy and an end to polluting fossil fuels. The marches are timed to coincide with the UN Climate Summit in New York on Tuesday, and for UN Climate talks in Lima this December, and in Paris in 2015.
Storage has long been billed as the Holy Grail for solar but is the industry is in danger of talking itself into a problem that doesn’t exist? Peter Bennett explores whether solar needs storage to become a mainstream player in the UK.
In a monumental re-shuffle to seemingly oust the “stale, pale and male” shackles of Cameron’s cabinet, the solar industry has some new parliamentary voices, but will the newbies lift the scandal of the notorious “green crap”?
Developers across the UK feel like they have been dealt a “kick in the teeth” by the government’s latest proposals to constrain the deployment of solar in the UK. From April 2015, the government wants to remove all RO support for solar developments over 5MW.
Britain faces a stark conservation challenge and large-scale solar is a friend not a foe. Peter Bennett explores the symbiotic potential for the country’s at risk species and the development of solar PV.
Here’s a challenge – spot the odd one out from the following list of 2014 FIFA world cup sponsors: McDonald’s, Coca-Cola, Budweiser, Adidas, Visa, Sony and Yingli.
