Guest Blog

The UK has more than 4GW of PV projects in the pipeline but the majority is at the mercy of local planning authorities.

The news that Hinkley Point achieved a strike price of £92.50 per MWh, nearly four times the amount originally proposed, cannot but rankle with the British solar industry.

The strike price for Hinkley Point C nuclear power station announced on Monday was described by the government as a good deal for Britain. But as Seb Berry of Solarcentury and the Solar Trade Association argues, compared to technologies such as solar, it is anything but.

Solar PV demand from the UK declined significantly during the third quarter of 2013, as the full impact of the Europe/China trade case impacted on module availability.

Brand spanking new MCS standards for solar thermal products and installers have just been released. Here’s a round up of the important changes they bring to our industry.

Debbie Marriage explains why agricultural land of any grade is improved and preserved when used to site a solar farm.

Since the feed-in tariff began, domestic PV installers looking to maximise returns for their customers have normally installed to a 4kWp ceiling.

In his latest blog, Martin Cotterell looks at the various methods that installers can employ to identify problems with an installed system.

Within the second part of this new two-part feature on the UK solar PV industry, vice-president of NPD Solarbuzz, Finlay Colville, reviews the detailed breakdown of the 802MW of new PV capacity added in the UK during the first half of 2013 (1H 2013). This includes segmentation by geography and installation size/type (residential, non-residential, large and small commercial and different size categories for ground-mount installations)

Gertjan van der Goot delves into the latest pricing data from CompareMySolar to determine the emerging trends in UK residential solar pricing. Looking at prices from over 50 UK solar installers it appears prices are edging closer together, and have certainly increased from previous record lows.