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The newly-elected leader of the Green Party, Natalie Bennett, has told Portsmouth News that ib vogt’s planned 47MW solar park is ‘Britain’s future’ during a recent site visit.

This summer Hamish Janson installed 100 solar modules at his farm in Newton Valence with the help of Godalming-based leasing experts, Reality Finance Solutions.

Scottish electrical contractor, Campbell and Kennedy, has announced a new finance scheme designed to help both public and private sector organisations in the UK benefit from solar PV.

A solar comparison website is claiming that an area the size of Derby could conceivably supply the UK with all the electricity it needs.

A coalition of insulation companies, representing over 70 percent of the UK’s £700 million insulation industry, has written to Ed Davey, the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, warning him that the current Green Deal proposals will jeopardise 16,000 jobs in the industry over the next year.

Lightsource Renewable Energy has completed the development of three different solar parks across the country. The largest of the new parks, located in Cambridgeshire, boasts a capacity of 5MW. The other two parks are located in Devon and are rated at 2.5MW and 3.5MW.

The Managing Director of Liverpool-based renewable energy specialists Eco Environments, David Hunt, has warned Ministers that they face an uphill battle to convince businesses and consumers to invest in the “undercooked” Green Deal.

In a speech at the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham yesterday, the Secretary for Energy and Climate Change, Greg Barker, has hit back at claims that his party has abandoned its ambition to become ‘the greenest Government ever’.

Guinness Asset Management has announced the launch of Guinness EIS 4, a discretionary managed service set up to invest in UK sustainable energy companies. The company is specifically targeting British sustainable energy companies with predictable revenues, low technology risk and low correlation with other asset classes.

The European Union has launched a new environmental campaign to help start a European-wide discussion on what can be done to achieve a climate-friendly future