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Environmental group Friends of the Earth has echoed calls from the Green Party for London Mayor Boris Johnson to establish a solar PV delivery unit.

Jeremy Leggett, founding director of Solarcentury, has appealed to the solar industry to do more to accelerate the transition to a low-carbon economy.

Primrose Solar has connected its 48MW Southwick Estate solar farm to the national grid, claiming it to be the UK’s “largest and greenest” solar farm in operation.

Canadian Solar, ReneSola and ET Solar all face being closed out of the minimum price agreement between China and the EU after having allegedly flouted rules of the 2013 deal.

American microinverter manufacturer, Enphase is “hoping to do for storage what it did for inverters” by moving to a modular architecture. Peter Bennett caught up with Thomas Lee, senior product manager for Enphase at Ecobuild to learn more about the company’s new energy storage system.

Yorkshire Water is plotting to construct ground-mounted solar arrays at two of its sewage and water treatment plants to help meet its energy demands.

The government’s plans to implement a near-universal rollout of smart meters to properties risks becoming a “costly failure”, according to the latest report from the energy and climate change committee.

UK shipping firm MMD Shipping Services has partnered with EvoEnergy to install a 1MW rooftop array at its import facility in Portsmouth.

A £10m solar park in Wiltshire may have to be dismantled after planning permission for the site was found to be unlawful by the High Court.

Solar Media’s first conference livestream will launch on 10 March, broadcasting live from the Solar Finance & Investment Conference in London.