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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.

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