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The UK’s commercial rooftop market needs innovation if it is to offer an attractive legal proposition, UK law firm Burges Salmon has said.

Water utility Severn Trent is to invest £190 million in its renewable energy generation practices over the next five years, with solar set to be a principal focus.

Solar PV installer A Shade Greener (ASG) has secured three financing facilities worth £155 million to refinance its portfolio of commercial and residential solar projects.

Solar farm developer, Green Hedge Renewables (formerly AEE Renewables) believes that the new contracts for difference (CfD) mechanism plays to the company’s “competitive strengths” and has welcomed the opportunities the scheme is bringing to the sector.

German utility RWE is to acquire a minority stake in global downstream solar player, Conergy.

Developer Wirsol Energy has connected a 29MW solar farm in the UK.

Gloucestershire Police are appealing for information after a solar farm had several thousand pounds of equipment stolen from it earlier this week.

The UK government should look to improve the market framework for energy storage in order to stimulate investment in the technology, a report issued by the House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee has found.

The Secretary of State, Eric Pickles has granted planning permission for Lark Energy’s 24MW solar farm on Ellough Airfield in Suffolk.

The UK residential market has continued to perform strongly, experiencing recent renewed growth that saw the market hit two capacity triggers in Q4, 2014 – the first time since 2012 that the residential sector has triggered a degression through growth as opposed to an automatic degression every nine months. Solar Power Portal talked to Panasonic’s Shigehiro Yoshida about why the company is so positive about the residential sector in the UK.