Blogs

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.

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.

This week it emerged that no UK homes have yet completed a Green Deal plan since the government’s flagship policy was launched at the start of the year. Charlotte Webster argues that the money spent on publicising the scheme should instead have been spent on communicating the merits of solar power, a positive proposition that suffers from an image problem.

The government’s forthcoming community energy strategy will put solar at the community-scale in the feed-in tariff scheme under a much needed spotlight. The impetus for ‘community energy’ could help address serious failings in the solar feed-in tariff scheme for the benefit of much broader investment in local solar power, says Leonie Greene.

The rush to build large-scale ground-mount projects to qualify for 2-ROCs incentive rate has pushed cumulative UK demand to 2.5GW. NPD Solarbuzz’s Finlay Colville looks at a record quarter for the UK.

Following on from last week’s blog which looked at how to implement the new MCS shade assessment guide, Martin explains why MCS chose the new shade procedure.

It’s no secret that the solar industry in the UK has faced problems with cowboys.