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Potential Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has backed the widespread deployment of solar PV in the UK, but expressed concern about its use on high-grade agricultural land.

Nottingham City Council has installed what is claimed to be the UK’s largest solar carport at the Harvey Hadden Leisure Centre.

The UK’s largest holder of solar PV assets Lightsource has pulled plans to develop a 5MW solar farm in Anglesey, Wales.

A 50kW rooftop solar installation is the “most attractive” renewable energy investment according to property consultancy Carter Jones’ 2015 Energy Index.

With just three months until the start of the COP 21 summit in Paris, UK Prime Minister David Cameron and US President Barack Obama couldn’t have more contrasting recent records on renewable energy.

American microinverter manufacturer, Enphase has said that the changing policy landscape in the UK will “not significantly impact” its business.

Some of the energy storage industry’s most prominent thinkers have called for the government to signal a “clear policy direction” for the technology.

London-based asset management group Foresight Solar Fund has said the UK “remains an attractive market” despite recent policy changes and confirmed it will pursue a 300MW pipeline in the second half of this year.

Bourne-based solar installer, Larkfleet has begun testing a an experimental ‘Solar Steam’ project near its offices in Lincolnshire.

Solar Power Portal is delighted to announce the first projects to be shortlisted for this year’s awards.