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Solar PV provider Upsolar has collaborated with installer Photon Energy to construct a 309kWp rooftop array in Basildon, Essex.

The Department for Energy and Climate Change has confirmed that the UK’s next Contracts for Difference allocation round will start on 21 October this year and finish next March.

The UK commercial rooftop industry received another boost this morning after Eric Pickles increased the permitted development threshold for rooftop solar panels installed on commercial property to 1MW.

A new report from the Department of Energy and Climate Change, titled “Delivering UK Energy Investment: Low Carbon Energy,” sheds some interesting light on the amount of assets allocated to solar power in the UK.

The UK Green Investment Bank (GIB) and the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) have agreed on terms for a £200 million international green investment pilot programme.

ET Solar provided 6MW of PV modules to the rooftop installation of retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S) distribution centre in the East Midlands of England, at Castle Donington.

Primrose Solar and EDF Energy have entered into a 15-year power purchase agreement (PPA) for their solar farms, which total 104MWp of capacity.

The Renewables Infrastructure Group (TRIG) has completed the acquisition of a 7.2MW solar farm from RES.

The Solar Trade Association (STA) has launched a new branch in Scotland.

Oakapple, a renewable energy firm, has begun its second round of crowd funding for its latest solar project.