The EU-China solar trade dispute looks set to reignite with every indication suggesting that EU ProSun will request a review of the impending expiry of duties on Chinese solar imports into Europe put in place in 2013, reports PV Tech.
The secretary of state for energy and climate change, Amber Rudd has sought to defend the Conservative’s green credentials after the party’s series of damaging changes to green support schemes.
The UK’s largest owner and operator of solar PV, Lightsource Renewable Energy, has expressed its concern over government proposals to drastically reduce the support available under the feed-in tariff.
The economics behind George Osborne’s decision to make cuts to a series of green policies are “bonkers”, former energy and climate change secretary Ed Davey has told the Guardian.
The chairman of the Solar Trade Association Scotland has voiced fierce criticism over the government’s recent proposals to cut the feed-in tariff for solar PV by almost 90% but has expressed his hope that Scotland’s political support for solar could save the country’s PV sector.
Solar Power Portal is calling on its readers to sign a parliamentary petition urging the Department for Energy and Climate Change to revisit feed-in tariff proposals revealed last week.
Module manufacturer Hanwha Q CELLS has refinanced two UK solar farms totalling just over 45MW of capacity, signing a power purchase agreement (PPA) with EDF Energy for the electricity produced.
Yesterday Entu became the first solar installer to confirm that it was to close its PV division less than a week after the government proposed sweeping cuts to the feed-in tariff.
