Solar Power Portal is delighted to unveil the shortlisted entries for the international use of solar category at this year’s Solar Power Portal awards, sponsored by Rexel.
Third-party investors are still interested in helping Doncaster City Council deploy thousands of rooftop installations, but the council has admitted that further reductions to the feed-in tariff will have an impact on the future of the scheme.
The UK solar industry’s lobbying efforts need to be more positive if they are to stand out, says Friends of the Earth energy and climate campaigner Alasdair Cameron.
Ben Godfrey, innovation and low carbon networks engineer at Western Power, speaks to Solar Power Portal about revisiting stagnant projects and how developers can best work with DNOs on connection applications.
Solar installer EvoEnergy has landed a contract to fit a 3.8MW rooftop PV installation, a project which it claims will be one of the five largest rooftop arrays in the country.
While the majority of the government’s recent changes to renewable energy subsidies will impact commercial and utility-scale installations the domestic market is still likely to feel the pinch.
UK investment giant Legal & General has reiterated its commitment to investing in the UK solar and renewables sectors despite government plans to curtail subsidy support.
Associated British Ports’ (ABP) Port of Barry has energised a 4.5MW solar farm as part of an effort to roll out renewable energy projects across all of its South Wales-based ports.
Doncaster City Council is aiming to install solar PV on around 6,000 council homes in order to tackle rising fuel poverty in the area, but it is not yet known whether a potential cut to the feed-in tariff would place the project in jeopardy.
