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The National Solar Centre (NSC) is to provide a new solar code of practice for ‘grid guidance’ to aid local authorities in deploying solar.

ET Solar has broken ground on a 8.7MW solar farm in Somerset.

A poll run on Solar Power Portal in the build up to Solar Energy UK posed the question: To what extent do you agree with the following statement? ‘Current installer standards agencies are supporting the progression of the UK solar PV industry’. The results make for grim reading for the MCS: 67.08% of readers either disagree or strongly disagree with the statement.  

The full transcript of the minister for energy and climate change, Amber Rudd’s speech to Solar Energy UK attendees.

ZNShine Solar is attending the Solar Energy UK 2014 fair ongoing now from October 14-16 in Birmingham, UK.

Enphase Energy’s European marketing director, Maxime Boiron says the company has identified the UK as a “main market” for commercial rooftop opportunities.

The first UK solar bond has been successful, and is oversubscribed with £600,000 excess.

The UK could reach 60GW of solar generation by 2030 and Schneider Electric has said it is to share expertise at Solar Energy UK (SEUK) on how to reach this 60GW vision.

At Solar Energy UK (SEUK), major global PVEP SunEdison said that the UK had become a key market for the company, but rather than citing its PV power plant project business success, the interest was the residential and commercial rooftop markets via installers.

The government will launch a consultation over the transfer of feed-in tariff (FiT) payments from one building to another before the end of the year, according to Amber Rudd, the minister for energy and climate change.