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Sanyo Component Europe has completed the installation of projects utilising its HIT1 solar modules at Rosa Street Primary School and Hamsterley Primary School in County Durham. The two schools were awarded the systems by Sanyo for their work in the Future Planets project – a challenge where pupils are tasked with exploring the state of the planet in 25 years time if sustainable and non-sustainable choices are made.

The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) is seeking views on proposed changes to the Standard Assessment Procedure (SAP). The consultation proposes changes that are designed to improve the accuracy of the procedure.

Following the uncertainty generated by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) decision to appeal the High Court’s ruling against the “unlawful” feed-in tariff deadline,  an attempt has been made by Government to restore faith and ensure business can still be carried out. On Friday afternoon the Department released…

The Renewable Energy Association (REA) has expressed concerns about the implementations of the ongoing solar feed-in tariff legal battle.

More than 50 unemployed people are building sustainable careers in North Tyneside thanks to training delivered by Gateshead College and renewable energy specialist Group Horizon.

The Court of Appeal will hear the Government’s challenge to last month’s High Court ruling that its proposed solar cuts were illegal on January 13.

Sundog Energy’s latest UK solar project has become the first in Europe to utilise the new Trina Solar Trinamount mounting system. The 50kWp retrofit installation at Mitchell’s Lakeland Livestock Mart, Cockermouth, is also Cumbria’s largest commercial solar project to date.

Ben Cosh, Managing Director of TGC Renewables, has called on the UK solar industry to embrace Government collaboration rather than continue with confrontation.

Just over a month since the UK’s Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) was made available to commercial, public sector and not-for-profit and community installations, the first two applicants have been given the go-ahead from Ofgem E-serve, which administrates the RHI scheme on behalf of Government.

Yesterday saw the solar feed-in tariff fiasco take another dramatic twist as the Government chose to appeal the High Court’s decision. The Court ruled that the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) had acted illegally by enacting proposed changes to the feed-in tariff rate weeks before the consultation on the decision…