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Shropshire council has completed the installation of solar arrays on 17 schools across the county, with the help of solar installer SolarTech Ltd. The £1.5 million project saw over 3,000 solar panels fitted to the schools in just four weeks.

Over 200 solar companies have written to the administrators of the Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS) to voice concerns over proposals to increase the paperwork, introduce oral assessments and enforce more training requirements.

Great Glemham Farms has partnered with renewable installer, AGReneewables, to propose the development of a 15MW solar park near the Suffolk village of Great Glemham.

The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has announced the results of the banding review for the Renewables Obligation (RO). The new proposals set out the level of support for large scale renewable developments between 2013 and 2017.

The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has revealed that the framework underpinning the Green Deal has been approved by the House of Lords, in keeping with the department’s stated October launch date.

Slough-based solar wholesaler, Antaris Solar, has launched a pair of stand-alone, portable photovoltaic systems. The eKiss Box and its smaller sibling, the Mini eKiss Box, have been designed to allow users to generate power in off-grid locations such as stables, outbuildings, sheds, camp sites, hunting cabins or holiday homes.

The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has indicated that it will be presenting its decisions on Renewable Obligation banding tomorrow after a protracted disagreement over wind subsidies between George Osborne and Ed Davey has apparently come to an end.

The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has launched a new low carbon heating scheme designed to allow community-based organisations to embrace renewable heating measures by bidding for a share of £8 million under the Renewable Heat Premium Payment (RHPP).

The aerodrome at Dunsfold Park in Surrey is infamous as the home of BBC’s Top Gear test track and studios. However, the park now has another claim to fame; Dunsfold Park has become one of the nation’s only business parks to be fed entirely on ‘green energy’.

Westmill Solar Cooperative is racing towards its £4 million target, after receiving nearly 800 applications interested in buying a share of the 5MW solar farm at Watchfield, near Swindon.