News

Solar developers seeking to enter the growing storage market have been advised that financing energy storage projects is a lot more complex than simply “transposing” learnings from solar to batteries.

Cambridge-based solar technology firm The Solar Cloth Company has filed for administration, raising fresh concerns about UK solar employment.

The outcome of an Ofgem review currently underway could threaten to significantly reduce the incentives for deploying commercial solar PV according to a report by KPMG.

A Northern Irish solar company has been fined £2,000 after a couple was mis-sold a system based on its financial returns.

Solar Power Portal runs through this week’s people news from within UK solar, including developments at Lightsource and Lark Energy

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 average cost of a 3kW domestic solar installation was nearly £1,000 more expensive in March than it was in January, according to statistics released by the Department of Energy and Climate Change.

The first council solar bond to be issued in the UK has sold out a month ahead of its final deadline in a landmark project that could kick-start a new wave of community energy projects.

Nissan has completed a new 4.75MW solar farm at its manufacturing site in Sunderland which has been co-located alongside ten existing wind turbines and will provide 100% of its energy to the company’s manufacturing needs.

Anesco Community Energy has doubled its solar capacity by purchasing two operational projects from its development arm Anesco.