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Friends of the Earth is taking on the Treasury in its latest campaign which aims to make the inner workings of the department more transparent.

The European Commission has confirmed that is opened an in-depth investigation into the UK government’s plans to subsidise the construction of a new nuclear plant at Hinkley Point in Somerset.

Over 495,000 homes across the UK are now solar powered, according to the latest statistics published by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC).

Solihull-based solar developer juwi Renewable Energies has announced that it has received planning permission for 7.23MW of new solar capacity.

The Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS) is preparing for the launch of the domestic renewable heat incentive (RHI) in spring next year by introducing new heat technology standards and competency criteria.

Construction has begun on the UK’s largest solar farm, a 41MW installation in West Didcot, Oxfordshire.

New regulations which determine what happens to old solar PV modules after their working life in the UK will come into effect in the new year.

Sharp has announced that it will cease solar PV production at its Wrexham manufacturing plant in February 2014.

Plans to introduce an auctioning system for renewable technologies should be brought forward, according to a new report by conservative think tank Policy Exchange.

British Solar Renewables has been granted planning permission by Wiltshire Council to build a 5.85MW solar farm on land adjacent to a sewage treatment works and Westbury Business Park.