The Solar Trade Association has published 10 commitments for solar farm developers to help ensure best practice in the increasingly controversial sector.
Solar thermal installations in July represented the lowest monthly deployment in all of 2013, according to statistics published by the STA, the HHIC and the ICOM energy association.
The average household energy consumption in the UK fell by almost a quarter from 2005 to 2011, according to the latest figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
The level of action being taken to reduce greenhouse emissions varies wildly between local authorities, according to a recent report by scientists at Newcastle University.
The latest PV installation figures released by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) show that less than 50kW installations have hit around 6MW-a-week.
A civic solar farm, thought to be the first to be built in Lincolnshire and only the second of its kind in the UK, is being planned by West Lindsey District Council.
