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Chinese solar cell and module manufacturer China Sunergy (CSUN) has announced plans to develop its first two solar parks in the UK, which will each have a capacity of 5MW.

Concerns over up-front costs are deterring homeowners from investing in energy efficiency measures, according to a survey.

Low carbon social enterprise Generation Community has issued a £1 million public share offer aimed at attracting investment for a solar project in Newport, Wales.

Three prominent low carbon trade bodies have joined forces to press the government to include a target to decarbonise the power sector in its forthcoming Energy Bill.

Energy and Climate Change Minister Greg Barker has once again publicly declared his desire to see the UK solar market reach 22GW by 2020.

The new feed-in tariff (FiT) rates for solar photovoltaic technology have become effective as of today.

Westmill Solar Co-operative has finalised its acquisition of Westmill Solar Park, making the £16.5million project the UK’s first, and, it claims, the world’s largest, co-operatively owned solar farm.

The University of Durham’s historic campus has long been one of the North East’s most treasured jewels, but the sprawling nature of the campus had long meant that the University’s core administrative services were scattered across the city.

Lord Heseltine has called for a “definitive and unambiguous” energy policy for the UK to provide long-term investment certainty for the industry.

The Scottish National Party (SNP) has set itself a new target of generating 50% of the nation’s electricity from renewable sources by 2015.