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Wirsol Energy Ltd has announced a deal to acquire two solar farms totalling 42.5MW of capacity in the UK.

The High Court has ruled that changes to support for large-scale solar projects in the UK were legal as it refused an application for a Judicial Review.

First Solar and Belectric have started construction of one of the UK’s largest solar farms, a 46MW project in Oxfordshire.

Amber Rudd, junior minister for energy and climate change has become the latest Conservative minister to criticise the deployment of solar farms in the UK after she said solar farms “are not particularly welcome” in the UK.

Investment platform Abundance has launched what it is claiming to be Europe’s largest crowdfunded solar project.

Exeter Council has applied for planning permission for two solar carports to be situated in the centre of the city.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has prosecuted a solar installer and a green energy firm in West Yorkshire for safety breaches following a severe injury to a worker who fell from a roof during a solar install.

Ofgem has confirmed that all tariff bands less than 50kW in the feed-in tariff (FiT) will degress by 3.5% come 1 January 2015.

At least six container loads of PV modules claimed to have been fraudulently acquired have entered the UK from various European warehouses, Solar Power Portal understands.

Bluefield Solar Income Fund (BSIF) has issued 150 million shares in order to raise gross proceeds of around £150 million.