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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.

A second round of funding has been launched to allow community groups in Bristol to secure grants for new clean energy projects with the support of the city’s new Mayor.

UK-based solar investment fund NextEnergy Capital (NEC) is to invest more than €150 million in the Italian solar market after receiving backing from the UK subsidiary of insurance and investment giant Prudential.

Finlay Colville, head of market intelligence at Solar Media, profiles the meteoric rise of community solar farms in the UK

SMA has announced the UK launch of its Sunny Boy Storage 2.5 system, a high-voltage battery-compatible inverter aimed at the private residential market.

The Solar Trade Association (STA) has elected Jonathan Selwyn and Seb Berry as its new chair and vice-chair respectively following a meeting of the body’s board of directors earlier this week.