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Back for the second day of the UK Solar Summit in London, the team is on the ground ready to present live coverage as the event plays out. Updates will be published here throughout the day.

The Solar Power Portal team is at the UK Solar Summit in London today (1 July) reporting live from the event. Our rolling coverage can be found here; check back throughout the day to stay up-to-date as the event goes on.

If you look online for a list of the biggest solar sites in the UK, you will find a lot of basic and out of date information. This list is changing frequently as big new solar sites are deployed in the UK, and the sites in this list are going to be dwarfed by much larger ones in the years to come.

The transition to utility scale solar is a significant environmental issue facing society today. Solar energy is one of the most environmentally friendly technologies available with an almost unlimited potential to reduce greenhouse gasses and lower the consumption of fossil fuels. The path to utility scale solar is discussed here by David Sanchez, EMEA sales director from GoodWe.

Following reports of rising refusals for solar farm applications, Solar Media’s Finlay Colville takes a look at the number of projects coming through the planning system.

With the Russian invasion of Ukraine reinvigorating the long-running debate about the land use of solar as opposed to food, Eden Renewables’ development manager and construction lead Ross Wolhuter takes a look at the misconceptions around land use and how solar and agriculture can work together.

Solar Media’s head of market research Finlay Colville takes a look at last weeks CfD auction winners and how the projects are spread out around Britain.

Finlay Colville explores the themes underpinning solar deployment at all levels out to 2030, including supply chain challenges, planning trends and community engagement.

Solar materials and component prices have stayed high longer than expected and developers are now starting to feel the pinch, the latest episode of the Solar Media Podcast has discussed.

After a transformational 2021 for UK solar, Solar Media’s head of market research Finlay Colville reveals that the UK’s solar pipeline now stands at a staggering 37GW, and explores the reasons behind such meteoric growth.