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The next capacity market (CM) auction is to be brought forward a year by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), which will hold the competition in January 2017 at a cost to homeowners.

Initial trials of Good Energy and Open Utility’s peer to peer energy trading service Piclo have concluded that the system could “bring renewable tariffs to life” and benefit both generators and consumers.

The most recent polls all but suggest a convincing victory for Labour’s Sadiq Khan, paving the way for him to succeed Boris Johnson as London mayor, but will he take solar as seriously as first promised?

As UK solar’s most recent build cycle comes to an end and portfolio operators continue to add to their earnings, the O&M market is hotting up. Liam Stoker looks into what’s trending in O&M, and what’s becoming standard in an ever-changing sub-sector.

Hive Energy has continued its international push with the announcement of new regional headquarters in Madrid – the company’s fourth overseas office to open since September 2015.

Twenty backbench Conservative MPs have written to Prime Minister David Cameron, calling on him to support the Committee on Climate Change’s (CCC) fifth carbon budget.

Marks & Spencer has launched the second wave of the M&S Energy Community Energy Fund, offering up to £350,000 of funding to renewable energy projects around the UK.

Members of the renewable energy industry have responded to comments made by the late Sir David Mackay, who said in his final interview that further deployment of solar capacity was not an effective energy strategy for the UK.

Renewable energy installer Dulas has partnered with Italian energy efficiency firm Innovatec to launch an energy management service targeted at intensive energy users in the UK.

Martifer Solar will begin to target new power purchase agreements (PPAs) and grid-scale storage for its solar projects following the connection of its last solar project under the Renewables Obligation before the 31 March deadline.