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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…

After a High Court judge ruled that Government’s December 12 solar installation deadline was “unlawful” the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) vowed to file a case with the Court of Appeal. Today, that appeal was lodged, and DECC is hopeful its case will be heard.

The Minister of State for Climate Change, Greg Barker has criticised the ‘environmental Taliban’ for what he believes are false accusations that the Government has repeatedly abandoned low-carbon ambitions and is reneging on its promise to be “the greenest Government ever.”

The Bilting Farm Business Centre has had an integrated solar panel roof fitted on one of its main buildings by Ashford-based M3 Solar.