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Leading pureplay developer Hive Energy has continued its international expansion, this time opening a new office in Mexico City.

A team of teachers volunteering to educate refugees and displaced peoples among the camps of Calais in northern France, will power a mobile school with a solar-plus-storage system.

Lightsource Renewable Energy was able to connect 23 new solar sites in December 2015 as it prepares to deliver its first subsidy-free sites in 2016.

Energy industry regulator Ofgem has yet to finalise plans on how it will implement the new feed-in tariff regime a month before it is due to come into place.

Insurance firm Watchstone Group is to spin off its property maintenance and renewables businesses citing market uncertainty created by government cuts.

A new solar array has begun to provide energy to Bodnant Garden, which has become the latest National Trust site to benefit from the charity’s efforts to reduce overall energy use by 2020.

Opposition MPs have accused the government of double standards in its energy policy, particularly in relation to differing levels of support offered to solar and nuclear power.

Energy minister Andrea Leadsom has said the government will do everything in its power to remove the “unwelcome drain” of the minimum import price attached to Chinese solar modules.

Distribution network operator Western Power Distribution has signed a contract with Renewable Energy Systems (RES) to deliver an energy storage system co-located with large-scale solar, which will be used to develop ways to commercialise services to the grid.

The UK solar industry has been warned not to get its hopes up after motions were laid to annul the government’s feed-in tariff cuts.