A flexible, transportable solar array that can be easily deployed or stored has taken one step closer to launching after raising £263,000 through an online crowdfunding campaign.
Cheap technology that can be retrofitted into windows could boost solar’s productivity fourfold, according to researchers at Glasgow Caledonian University.
The EU Trade Commission has told PV Tech that it will not be pursuing the dossier of evidence presented to it by EU ProSun and SolarWorld that purported to show breaches of the EU-China price undertaking.
In response to a rising number of solar farm developments, the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) has issued a Policy Guidance Note to its members outlining the group’s position on solar developments.
A poll of MPs has discovered that 87% support the deployment of solar in the UK, despite moves by the Coalition government to constrain large-scale solar deployment.
The Prime Minister, David Cameron has stated that solar “has the potential to play a valuable part of the UK’s renewable energy mix”, in a written response to calls from more than 150 businesses to support Britain’s solar industry.
