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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.

Shoreham-based steel manufacturer ParkerSteel has partnered with installer PerPetum Energy to fit a 1.8MWp rooftop solar array to the roof of its manufacturing facility.

The Next Energy News integrated renewables system award is designed to recognise the best low carbon energy project in the UK.

Solar Cloth Company chief executive Mike Staplehurst talks to Solar Power Portal about the need for the UK’s car parks and other redundant, Brownfield plots of land to adopt solar for energy generation.

Clydebank-based solar installers, Campbell & Kennedy remain positive about solar’s prospects despite the government’s plans to cut its support under the feed-in tariff by almost 90%.

Energy efficiency firm Entu is to close its UK solar division less than a week after the government revealed plans to cut the feed-in tariff by almost 90%, citing the “increasingly difficult” environment for solar in the UK.

This award, sponsored by SunEdison, recognises one company’s commitment to ensure that the myriad benefits of solar are shared across the whole local community. The judges are looking for the project which has delivered the biggest impact on a community be it from a community group itself or the efforts of a private sector player to spread the rewards of their work to the wider locality.

Opposition to the Conservative government’s contentious feed-in tariff proposals has spread to the Houses of Parliament as shadow energy secretary Caroline Flint accused the Tories of undermining solar and onshore wind.