Starting from 9:00am at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, Solar Energy UK 2013, the UK solar industry’s largest business to business event, is hosting more than 160 exhibitors for 3 days with two seminar halls and two feature areas.
The growing number of negative press headlines about solar farms could be dismissed as nimbyism, but equally they could be early signs of a publish backlash against large PV developments. Solar needs to work hard to maintain the public’s goodwill and avoid the same fate as wind energy.
Depending on who you ask, energy minister Greg Barker’s ambition of 20GW by 2020 is either pie-in-the-sky rhetoric or a critical underestimation of what solar can achieve in the UK.
Europe’s trade standoff with China has generated countless contradictory rumours. Nilima Choudhury and Peter Bennett look beyond the headlines to ascertain what the EC’s final decision next week will mean for solar
A growing number of sporting stadia in the US are now sourcing their power from solar installations. Peter Bennett looks at some of the most high profile examples
The UK has been one of the least attractive PV markets for thin-film solar panels. The market share of thin film in the UK solar industry barely nudges over 1% compared to a global figure that is an order of magnitude higher.
