Blogs

March 17, 2020
By Molly Lempriere
Solar Power Portal sat down with Ricardo Piñeiro, head of UK Solar at Foresight Group, to discuss the rise of subsidy free solar, the return of the contracts for difference auction (CfD), and the effect of the Targeted Charging Review (TCR).
March 12, 2020
By Alice Grundy
Chris Hewett, chief executive of the Solar Trade Association, spoke to Solar Power Portal about the exclusion of solar in yesterday’s Budget and the promise of a reform to business rates.
March 5, 2020
By Molly Lempriere
Dave Ogden, managing director of ICP Smith Brothers, talked to Solar Power Portal about how subsidy free solar is changing the industry and what’s to come.
March 2, 2020
By Finlay Colville
During the first two months of 2020, an additional 675MW of ground-mount large-scale solar farms has been added to the pipeline, taking the cumulative pipeline now to 7GW across a total of 345 sites.
February 5, 2020
By Finlay Colville
Finlay Colville, head of market research at Solar Media, provides a forensic analysis of the UK’s utility-scale solar pipeline, detailing precisely why the market looks set to return to gigawatt-scale deployment this year.
January 27, 2020
By Faisal Hussain
Faisal Hussain, managing director at Certi-fi and the Energy Performance Valuation Scheme, stresses the need for the domestic renewables sector to avoid mis-selling at all costs.
January 23, 2020
By José Rojo Martín
Going subsidy-free with 5.4MWp Hall Farm II and 50MWp Staughton changed ‘everything’, executive says in interview held after firm reached raising milestone with first global fund.
January 23, 2020
By Alice Grundy
Solar Power Portal speaks to Pivot Power’s chief executive Matt Allen about how to expand from 49.9MW and how the ‘hint is in the name’ when it comes to revenue agility.
December 10, 2019
By Stephen Cirell
Solar Power Portal’s resident local authority expert Stephen Cirell investigates the role solar car ports can play in helping councils and local authorities tackle climate emergencies, helped by tumbling install costs.
December 3, 2019
By Finlay Colville
Finlay Colville, head of market research at Solar Media, provides an early forecast for what next year holds in store for UK solar as post-subsidy economics and a surging project pipeline come to the fore.

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