Greg Barker, the former energy secretary and now BPVA president, has criticised the evidence base used to compile the current feed-in tariff proposals and pleaded with Amber Rudd to listen to the industry’s submissions.
Ex-England rugby international Austin Healey has warned that the installation business he’s a director of would have to make more than 600 redundancies if proposed cuts to the feed-in tariff are enforced.
Solar installers looking to diversify into new technologies should the government’s 87% cuts to the feed-in tariff come into force are looking at a large number of markets, a Solar Media survey has found.
Conergy UK has appointed former Balfour Beatty head of energy Paul Weaver and Lindsey Geraghty as the company’s new joint managing directors, replacing the departing Robert Goss.
We’ve been talking over the past few months with a large number of key and emerging players in the UK’s energy storage industry. With our show Solar Energy UK coming up next week, we thought this would be a good opportunity to share with you the thoughts of two of those players on the relationship between renewables and energy storage.
Jerry Hamilton, business development director at Rexel, discusses next week’s Solar Power Portal Awards and how they can celebrate the UK’s standing as a global solar market.
Almost 60% of the UK’s solar installers are looking to diversify into new technologies should the government’s feed-in tariff proposals come into force next year, a survey conducted by Solar Power Portal publisher Solar Media has found.
British certification body the BBA and the Photovoltaik-Institut Berlin are to unveil a new inspection process for PV power plants at Solar Energy UK next week.