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UK solar farm operator Primrose Solar has added the 5MWp Bedborough Solar Farm to its portfolio after acquiring it from developer Solstice Renewables.

Energy trade association the National Association of Professional Inspectors and Testers (NAPIT) has called on the government to leave the feed-in tariff alone in order to stimulate the domestic solar market.

Around 60% of EPCs active in the UK solar farm segment are from mainland Europe, according to analysis carried out by Solar Intelligence.

Solar investment fund NextEnergy Solar Fund has struck deals worth a combined £22 million to acquire two additional solar farms in the UK.

Labour MP and solar proponent Huw Irranca-Davies has been elected to chair the environmental audit committee in a secret ballot yesterday, while SNP minister Angus Brendan MacNeil will chair the energy and climate change (ECC) committee.

Low-income families are paying a disproportionately higher amount towards green energy levies than others and are struggling with an “unfair burden”, a report issued by the Institute for Public Policy Research has found.

The government’s decision to end renewable obligation support for onshore wind a year early has been met by dismay from the UK’s wider green sector.

The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has confirmed that it will be closing the renewable obligation to onshore windfarms from 1 April 2016, one year early.

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has reconfirmed its intention to implement a ‘tax lock’ until 2020, despite a European Court of Justice ruling which said that the UK’s lower VAT rate for energy saving measures was against its VAT directive.

UK asset management fund Aviva Investors has closed its solar PV fund for the first time, raising £131 million of commitments for UK solar investment.