Blogs

Rumours have continued to circulate as to what might – and might not – feature in chancellor George Osborne’s spending review in two weeks’ time, and government departments are bracing for impact.

It’s a deal that’s supposed to have been in the works for more than a year, but a solar trade deal between the UK and Turkey has yet to transform Barnsley into one of Europe’s foremost PV hubs. Liam Stoker looks into the latest details.

New research undertaken by the in-house Solar Intelligence team can exclusively reveal that the UK will pass 9GW of cumulative solar PV installed this week.

Solar industry raises cash and equipment to give a Ugandan hospital critical energy security for its surgical unit.

Solar Intelligence’s Finlay Colville delves into the UK’s utility-scale pipeline and breaks down just what it means for UK EPC and component suppliers looking to do business as the country gears up for yet another ROC rush.

NextEnergy Capital’s Abid Kazim explains why proposed changes to solar support will harm investment in UK industry as a whole, not just the solar sector as he calls on the government not to opt out of a US$3.7 trillion future.

Solar Intelligence’s Finlay Colville analyses the rush to fit-out ground-mount solar farms out to 31 March 2016, and what’s really going on at EPCs and component suppliers.

With Solar Energy UK (SEUK) having taken place this month, Jerry Hamilton, business development director of Renewables & Energy Solutions at Rexel UK explains how to harness the power of networking and fuel business growth.

This Friday (October 23) the Department of Energy and Climate Change’s small-scale feed-in tariff consultation will close and the department will use all submitted evidence to decide whether or not its proposals – labelled draconian by most of those who’ve read them through – are fit for their purpose. It’s absolutely imperative that you, the industry, respond.

This week’s Solar Energy UK exhibition brought the UK’s solar sector together at Birmingham’s NEC at a crucial time. Here are five things we learned from the three-day exhibition.