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A new report from MPs scrutinising the government’s energy policy has called for significant and wide-ranging changes to the UK’s grid governance and policy landscape if the country is to transition towards low carbon network infrastructure.

Should Great Britain vote to leave the European Union later this week there could be a much greater need for new energy generation capacity, but at the cost of an extra £140 million on annual consumer bills.

The wait is over, and the counting has been finished by our research team. The size of the UK solar market in the first quarter of 2016 can now be revealed and analysed in detail.

Battery manufacturers Sonnen and Leclanché are in early talks to help deliver an “unprecedented” scheme with North Star Solar which will see its batteries rolled out as part of a potentially huge project.

An increasing number of companies in the commercial and industrial (C&I) space are coming round to solar, however their business is placing more demands on installers particularly in the field of customer service.

Nominations for this year’s Solar Power Portal Awards, sponsored by Trina Solar, are currently open. Returning for its fourth consecutive year, the Solar Power Portal Awards will take place on 5 October during the Clean Energy Live exhibition at Birmingham’s NEC.

Solar Power Portal runs through this week’s people news from within UK solar, including a recruitment drive at British Gas, new leadership at the STA and other new appointments

Finlay Colville, head of market intelligence at Solar Media, reveals the companies that helped shaped UK Solar throughout Q1 2016

A huge solar plus storage project is set for the town of Stanley in County Durham, where up to 22,000 homes will have a combination of PV panels, battery storage units and LED lighting installed at no cost to residents.

Investors in The Solar Cloth Company’s (TSCC) crowd funding campaign are likely to be left empty handed despite a sale of the troubled company’s assets completing last week.