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Scottish solar installer AES Solar has joined Panasonic’s Premium Installer programme, growing the manufacturer’s Scotland-based installer ranks to 14.

NextEnergy Solar Fund has clinched a major acquisition deal which will see it spend almost £100 million on an asset portfolio with a combined capacity of 84MW.

Foresight Solar Fund has secured two major refinancing deals with a total value of £200 million and announced that it has agreed to enter five-year power purchase agreements for all but one of its operational portfolio.

g2 Energy has said it completed work on 47 large scale ground mounted solar farms in the six months leading up to the early closure of the Renewables Obligation on 31 March, totalling 356.4MW.

The Bristol Energy Co-operative (BEC) has raised the £2 million needed to fund the purchase of a solar farm in Somerset as well as develop new projects in and around the city.

The 50kW+ cap was breached last week as installations in both this and the 0-10kW bands experienced record weeks under the new regime.

The Department of Energy and Climate Change’s solar forcasts have been heavily scrutinised in the past, but its estimate that just 11MW of solar was installed in February looks especially wide of the mark given the rush to comply with 1.3 ROC deadlines.

Renewables’ share of electricity generation has increased to record levels according to the latest government figures which claim that solar PV accounted for around 9% of renewable generation in 2015.

Vattenfall has begun generating electricity at a prototype project which sees a new solar development share an existing grid connection with one of the company’s wind farms.

New Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) statistics published this morning have claimed that just 11MW of new solar capacity was added last month.