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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.

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.

Lark Energy has taken up new premises in Lincolnshire to reflect the recent expansion of the company’s divisions of business, which have now been brought together under one roof.

Two of the three remaining solar projects that were allocated Contracts for Differences (CfD) last year have been beset by delays and the termination of subsidy support.

Nominations for this year’s Solar Power Portal Awards 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.

Hamburg-based renewables operator Capital Stage has taken its UK-based PV portfolio to in excess of 80MW after purchasing its fifth asset.

Goldbeck Solar has confirmed the completion of a 49.6MW solar farm near Melksham in Wiltshire as the company looks to grow its business in the UK.