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The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has confirmed plans to remove renewable obligation (RO) support for solar developments over 5MW from April 2015.

The Solar Trade Association has said that a raft of critical decisions published on Thursday are ‘particularly damaging’ for the UK solar industry, describing the move to scrap RO support as “unfair and unjustified discrimination”.

The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has confirmed that it will scrap support for solar over 5MW from April 2015 in its consultation response published on Thursday.

Solar developer British Solar Renewables (BSR) has joined forces with diversified industrial holding company, Siem Industries to develop utility-scale renewable projects in both the UK and worldwide.

German developer ib vogt GmbH and Northamptonshire-based Solafields have announced the completion of a 37.8MW solar farm in Crundale, Pembrokeshire.

Property fund manager Highcross has installed a 250kWp solar system on its 1000 Lakeside building in Portsmouth.

German inverter manufacturer, SMA has moved to offer PV operators and owners free access to its online monitoring platform with its latest range of Sunny Boy Inverters.

The construction of a community-owned solar farm in Dundee could help reduce fuel poverty and regenerate land that is classed as contaminated and derelict, according to Solar Cities Scotland, a charity trying to mastermind Scotland’s largest community-owned solar farm.

Enphase Energy will be demonstrating its new M250 fourth generation microinverter, at Solar Energy UK in Birmingham.

Chinese inverter manufacturer, Growatt will be launching three new products at this year’s Solar Energy UK (SEUK).