Solar Power Portal talks to Carter Jonas’ Andrew Watkin on how developers need to focus on the financial benefits of a solar installation when pitching to businesses following the consultancy’s 2015 Energy Index which labeled a 50kW solar rooftop to be the most attractive technology for investment.
The UK solar industry has been on a dramatic journey since the introduction of the feed-in tariff. Rexel’s Jerry Hamilton argues that the industry will have to maintain its frenetic pace in order to raise the quality of solar installs in the future.
The Department for Energy and Climate Change probably expected its proposed subsidy cuts to be roundly criticised by the renewables industry, but it just might be taken aback by the response from opposition ministers.
Onshore wind developer Banks Group has submitted formal plans to develop a 5MW solar array at the site of its Penny Hill wind farm two months after first revealing it was to move into solar.
Ministers from the governments of Scotland and Wales have slammed energy and climate change secretary Amber Rudd’s proposed renewable cuts, claiming that they will “significantly damage” future community energy programmes.
