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The UK government’s review of support for large-scale solar PV has been “calm and measured”, according to the minister of climate change, Greg Barker.

Thursday’s Green Energy News Review reports on IEA’s new prediction that solar will dominate the global grid by 2050, the top ten food and drinks companies’ carbon shame, and the UK government’s mishandling of carbon capture.

Foresight Solar Fund has announced the acquisition of a 37MW solar farm located in Bournemouth.

Yingli Green has begun trial production of a new line of monocrystalline silicon solar modules that incorporate N-type metal-wrap-through (N-MWT) technology, the Chinese company announced yesterday.

Renewable energy technologies will play a critical role in weaning the UK off its reliance on imported foreign fuel, according to energy supplier Good Energy.

The Department of Energy and Climate Change has published deployment figures for the first 21 days of the domestic Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI).

The proposed move to Contracts for Difference (CfDs) from April 2015 will mark a seismic shift in the way the UK solar farm market will access financial support; industry experts shed some light on what to expect from CfDs and how to get ready for their arrival.

In Wednesday’s Green Energy News Review, an anti-underground coal gasification activist has been hit with a cease and desist order by polluting company for indefensible reasons

Watch industry leaders reject government’s argument that solar farm decision was necessary to preserve the budget and criticise the manner in which the news was delivered.

Electricity storage could be the “glue” that holds electricity networks together in the near future, according to Alan Whitehead MP.