Guest Blog

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.

In the first of a two-part feature, Finlay Colville, discusses the progress within the UK PV industry over the first six months of 2013. Colville confirms the new PV capacity added in the UK during 1H’13 and how this compares to global PV installations and prior first-half periods in the UK back to 2010.

Solar farms are great places for nature.And they are all set to become even better places in the future.

Small-scale PV storage has not yet taken off in the UK. However, the necessary technical and commercial drivers could kick in soon and rapidly change this situation, and when they do, we need to be ready, says Martin Cotterell

Can microinverters help attract residential investors to solar power?

Despite all the benefits energy storage provides to the grid and generators and its integral part in the future of solar PV in the UK, it is not yet a financially viable investment for any distinct part of the value chain.

The Taxpayers Alliance’s attempt to swindle the public out of clean energy with a new campaign: ‘The Energy Swindle’.

A quick drive around a new-build industrial estate or office complex will demonstrate the impact solar panels are having in the UK.

Watching the large-scale solar parliament debate yesterday, I was very saddened that solar developers were accused of falsifying information in advertising specifically with regards to the growth of grass underneath and around the panels

The only British entry to the World Solar Challenge reveals their revolution in solar care design and engineering.