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Last week Solar Power Portal revealed that the UK installed a total of one point five gigawatts of new solar between January and March this year. But with the ROC scheme closing and feed-in tariff deployment falling some 80% year-on-year, is the UK headed for a cliff edge?

Luxcara has continued to boost its UK solar assets by acquiring two additional farms from Conergy, which will add 19.6MW of capacity to the German company’s renewable energy portfolio.

Solar installers looking into storage applications for commercial properties will need to offer more than just load shifting for them to be viable, Centrica’s Chris Morrison has said.

Solarcentury has donated solar panels to help power the Greenpeace Field at this week’s Glastonbury Festival, supporting the charity’s low carbon theme for this year’s event.

SolarEdge has grown its product offering with this week’s launch of a new suite of energy management technologies alongside the company’s commercial PV solution.

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.