After suffering four potential knockout punches, solar (arguably the UK’s most resilient industry) is staggering slightly. Following the latest feed-in tariff (FiT) cut, installations plummeted by over 75%. Such a dramatic drop was expected but the market bounce-back hasn’t been quite as quick as many hoped.
Set up in 2010, Solar Solutions has gone from strength-to-strength despite the recent troubles facing the solar industry. Solar Power Portal caught up with the company’s Managing Director, David McCann to find out what’s been driving the success.
“What regulations do I need to study when designing a grid connected PV system?” is a question I get asked fairly regularly. The answer isn’t completely straightforward, but the following documents are good places to start.
The latest installation figures show that the residential market is beginning to show serious signs of recovery, but is it enough to support the 4,500 MCS-registered solar companies?
Another week and another knee jerk reaction from The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC). Faced with the prospect that take up of Green Deal home improvements could be as low as 1.5 percent DECC – which would much prefer to be just plain DE – has panicked and promised to throw £125 million at householders in an attempt to ‘kick start’ the program.
An apparent shock energy policy announcement at Prime Minister’s questions has plunged the Coalition Government into crisis management mode as Labour accuses Government of making up an energy policy “like something out of The Thick Of It”, in reference the BBC comedy satirising the manipulation of hapless ministers by the government spin machine.
Many people aren’t aware that subsidies have long been part of the energy sector. We started having subsidies for fossil fuels a long time ago, and we still have them today.
This year’s Solar Power UK event has come to an end. After an incredible 4,500 visitors, 178 exhibitors and 69 seminar speeches, it’s fair to say that the solar industry is still a significant force in the UK.
Solar Power UK 2012 is finally over. A stunning 4,500 visitors travelled out to the NEC in Birmingham to come out and support the UK solar industry with over 40 percent of all exhibitors rebooking for next year’s event.
