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Solar Power Portal runs through this week’s people news from within UK solar, including hires at DP Energy and Bluesky, and news of redundancies at The Solar Cloth Company

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.

The UK solar industry has reached its latest milestone after generating more energy in a full month than coal for the first time, according to analysis by Carbon Brief.

Conservative think-tank Bright Blue has said that renewables must be the government’s ‘Plan B’ in the event that the controversial Hinkley C nuclear power project falls through.

Developers of commercial solar PV hoping to add batteries to their offerings could find the expertise required a significant barrier to entry, the head of a solar installation and power engineering company has said.

The UK solar market must “unlock” deployment on commercial buildings if the technology is to continue its cost-reduction path to a subsidy-free future, the Renewable Energy Association (REA) has claimed.

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.

Clean energy utility and renewables developer Good Energy has today launched a customer-focused share offer to help power its new strategy.

A field trial to deploy 50 grid-connected energy storage systems is going ahead in Scotland between UK energy storage firm Moixa Technology, vertically integrated energy company Scottish Power and energy efficiency advisory group BillSaveUK.

British Gas Solar, the solar-focused arm of Centrica’s distributed generation business, is to continue work on the Energise Barnsley solar PV scheme after a new bond offer launched to finance the project.