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Scotland’s energy minister Fergus Ewing has accused the UK government of complacency a week after National Grid was forced to issue an urgent request for more electricity.

The London Assembly has given Mayor of London Boris Johnson a deadline of today in which to press energy secretary Amber Rudd for a meeting over proposed cuts to the feed-in tariff.

A group of 100 of the UK’s leading community energy groups has pleaded with chancellor George Osborne to reverse community energy tax relief cuts as Balcombe has been forced to shelve its own solar farm plans.

A Labour MP has called for the government to hold a parliamentary debate into cuts to community energy tax relief initiatives.

The Microgeneration Certification Scheme has announced that new fire prevention standards outlined in issue two of MCS 012 are to come into force from May 2016.

UK installer eco NRG Solutions has partnered with Germany’s New Energy for the World to complete a 7MW solar farm in Somerset and start work on a 100MW portfolio across the UK.

Germany’s market-leading residential energy storage system maker Sonnenbatterie is to enter the UK residential energy storage market with its lithium-ion storage system Sonnenbatterie eco.

Councils have not been put off investing in solar despite the recent subsidy cuts, according to public sector energy consultant Stephen Cirrell.

The UK’s largest solar developer Lightsource Renewables has refinanced yet more of its solar assets, this time raising £284 million.

Asset management group NextEnergy Solar Farm (NESF) has completed the acquisition of a trio of ground-mount solar farms, taking its investment value beyond £300 million.