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The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has published its final estimates of UK greenhouse gas emissions for 2010.

Birmingham Airport has enlisted the help of npower to install a 50kWp solar array on the roof of its terminal.

The Tank Museum in Dorset has installed over 200 solar photovoltaic panels on one of its exhibition halls to provide a major boost to the museum’s environmental credentials.

Funding in excess of £29 million has been awarded by the Energy Innovation Centre (EIC) for companies looking to bring new and innovative ideas to the UK’s energy market. The funding originates from Ofgem’s Innovation Funding Incentive scheme and the £500m Low Carbon Networks (LCN) Fund.

More than 100 Conservative MPs have written to the Prime Minister demanding cuts to the subsidies for on-shore wind farms.

Lark Energy has recently submitted plans to Charnwood Borough Council for what will be the UK’s largest solar project. If planning permission is approved, construction on a 150-acre site near Loughborough, Leicestershire, will begin later this year.

The newly-appointed Energy and Climate Change Secretary, Edward Davey, joined the Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, in reiterating the Coalition’s ambition to support green business in the UK, despite the change in leadership at the Department of Energy and Climate Change, following the resignation of Chris Huhne last week.

The Tamar View Community Centre in Plymouth is set for a solar makeover after a planning application was submitted to Plymouth City Council in order to gain permission to install solar panels on the centre’s roof.

Strategic Energy has completed 400 of a planned 700 solar installations for Manchester-based landlord, St Vincent’s Housing Association. The tenants living in the solar-clad houses will benefit from free renewable electricity while the landlord takes the feed-in tariff payments.

Bromsgrove District Council has given the green light to a solar energy scheme that will see solar panels installed on the council’s depot in Aston Road.