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The NextEnergy Solar Fund (NESF) has raised £61.4 million after releasing new shares on 10 February.

Lightsource Renewable Energy has earmarked an investment of £125 million for the UK rooftop solar market.

A 10MW solar farm near Abergavenny in Monmouthshire has been granted approval on appeal by the Welsh planning inspectorate.

There were more than 7,780 solar installs carried out under the feed-in tariff during January 2015, according to the latest figures published by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC).

The Solar Energy UK Installer Roadshow will embark on its second leg next week, stopping at Edinburgh, Yorkshire and Leicester.

Debbie Marriage, senior consultant at Parker Dann Town Planning Consultancy, discusses the industry’s post-election priority to take the politics back out of planning decisions.

United Utilities has installed solar arrays across four of its rooftops at the Fleetwood Water Treatment Works (WTW).

Solar developer Conergy has recruited a team of senior solar people to drive the company’s newly-formed commercial rooftop division.

The competition and markets authority (CMA) has called into question the value for money of the eight CfD projects which were awarded funding without competition.

In light of Solar Power Portal’s stunning reveal that Defra amassed no evidence to back up its claims that solar farms displace agricultural production, Peter Bennett outlines some more details from the freedom of information request.