The Scottish Labour party has pledged to generate half of the country’s electricity, heat and transport demand from renewables by 2030 as part of its manifesto for this week’s Scottish Parliament election.
Construction of Ireland’s largest solar development has been given the green light after planning permission was granted to Hadstone Energy’s 46MW solar farm in County Antrim.
The government’s controversial consultation on reforms to the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) closed this week amid claims its proposals are “counterproductive, and will significantly impact the industry.”
A near 50MW solar farm has been completed near Norwich and has begun generating renewable energy for the local grid in one of the biggest schemes of its kind.
The percentage of the public in ‘strong support’ of solar has soared to new highs according to the Department of Energy and Climate Change’s latest public attitudes tracker.
The government has been advised to accept the Committee on Climate Change’s (CCC) fifth carbon budget by the Energy and Climate Change (ECC) committee, which has warned that any attempt to deviate from the plan will be met with scrutiny.
Concerns about the availability of finance and the cost of grid connections will be the biggest barriers to Irish solar deployment, a breakout session at the Solar Summit in London has said.
