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Solarlec is one of 14 companies claiming £132 million in damages from the Department of Energy and Climate Change. The company’s director Nicholas Keighley tells Peter Bennett why the company felt legal action was necessary.

The UK is in danger of missing its post-2020 carbon targets unless key policies are strengthened, according to a report published today by the Committee on Climate Change (CCC).

Foresight Solar Fund has announced that it has acquired its seventh solar farm in the UK.

UK renewable company 4Eco has revealed that it has quadrupled its workforce in less than two years.

Tours of its solar farms as part of the inaugural Solar Independence Day were extremely well received by the public, according to Belectric UK.

Industry body the Solar Trade Association has called on the National Grid to revise its predictions for UK solar in the coming years, claiming they are too low.

German developer juwi has had its plans for a solar farm in mid-Devon thrown out on appeal.

Solar PV wholesaler, Waxman Energy, has announced that it has added Chinese solar manufacturer Trina Solar’s new 270W Honey Module to its product range.

Japanese solar manufacturer Solar Frontier will work with German solar developer New Energy for the World (NEW) to develop an 8.1MW solar farm in Banwell, Somerset.

Companies claiming £132 million in damages from the Department of Energy and Climate Change have rejected the department’s claim that the changes to the feed-in tariff scheme it enacted in 2011 would have saved customers from a £50 a year bill rise by 2020.