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A 900-year-old North Somerset church has recently completed a 3.6kWp solar installation.

Mitsubishi Electric has been praised for its ambitious ‘Learning Curve’ programme that aims to teach schoolchildren about the importance of adopting ‘the 3 Rs’ – Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.

In a bid to increase its UK market share and increase its brand awareness Sputnik Engineering has signed an agreement with Hertfordshire-based Solar Cube. Under the terms of the partnership Solar Cube will distribute SolarMax inverters from its West Midlands depot across the UK.

Canadian Solar has successfully launched a partner program for Engineering Procurement Contractors (EPCs) and PV installers in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region. This news follows the opening of the company’s Authorized Reseller Program in April this year.

Habinteg Housing Association has installed solar arrays on all 46 properties of the association’s tenants in Clerkes Way, Houghton Regis.

The new REDtip roof anchor, purpose-designed and developed for UK roofs by a UK manufacturer, is expected to reduce the need for grinding or cutting of slates and tiles.

In a leaked email seen by the Telegraph, Cabinet Office Minister, Oliver Letwin, spoke of Government’s desire to phase out subsidies for both solar PV and onshore wind by 2020 because both technologies should reach grid-parity before the end of the decade.

Solar PV distributor, the Waxman Group, has announced the appointment of James Shakespeare as Business Development Manager within the company’s renewables division.

Greg Barker, the Minister for Energy and Climate Change, has spoke of his desire to see more community-funded solar projects across the country after visiting one of the first schools in the UK to generate its own electricity from a community-funded solar project.

Solar photovoltaic manufacturer LDK Solar has partnered with Solarif, to become the first companies to offer customers a full insurance package at the system level.