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The Great Yorkshire Show is now home to one of the largest solar arrays in the area after the completion of a 245kWp solar array at its headquarters in Harrogate.

In its first ever major report on renewables, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has estimated that global renewable power generation will increase by over 40 percent over the next five years.

The CBI has used its strongest rhetoric yet in urging politicians to adopt a smarter, more consistent approach to energy and climate change policy.

As the UK solar market progressed past the gigawatt mark the term “grid parity” begun to creep into industry players’ lexicon, with many suggesting that solar power could become a serious part of the wider energy mix in the next few years. But, is this concept actually realistic in the UK, or is the idea of installing solar panels without a subsidy completely out of reach?

The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has called on independent renewable generation developers to supply the department with evidence to support claims that the Power Purchase Agreement market has deteriorated.

Newcastle United Football Club has secured its long-term target of achieving Carbon Trust Standard accreditation after installing a raft of environmental measures that have trimmed the club’s utility bills by almost a quarter of a million in just three years.

A new training programme developed by the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA) will help provide managers and others with the necessary knowledge, understanding and skills to improve their organisation’s environmental management and sustainability performance is now available from the British Safety Council.

Solarcentury has announced that the installation of London’s largest solar array is half way complete today as the 2,200th solar module was installed on the roof of Blackfriars station.

The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has undertaken analysis designed to determine the drivers that cause an individual to install solar photovoltaic technology at a domestic level.

A 4.22MW solar park in Puriton, Somerset is the first solar park to be offered as a traditional property investment opportunity in the UK after property consultants Alder King have been instructed to listen to offers in the region of £886,000 on behalf of BAE Systems.