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December 2, 2011
DECC has published the weekly solar PV installation and capacity graph that the Minister of State for Climate Change, Greg Barker, showed to the EAC and ECC during Tuesday’s inquiry into the proposed cuts to the feed-in tariff.
December 1, 2011
Phono Solar modules have received the salt mist corrosion certificate from Inertek Testing Services, in accordance with the IEC61702 standard.
December 1, 2011
Around 4,500 members of staff at Carillion have been warned that they are at risk of redundancy over the Christmas period. The energy giant has begun a statutory 90-day consultation period as a result of the Government’s proposed fifty percent slash to the solar subsidy.
November 30, 2011
A Shade Greener has installed its 10,000th free solar system this month, a figure that accounts for approximately 10 percent of all installations completed in the UK to date.
November 30, 2011
Siemens has opened its Energy Service Training centre in Newcastle in a ceremony that was attended Lord Willis of Knaresborough, former chair of the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee.
November 29, 2011
The Environmental Audit and the Energy Climate Change Committees jointly conducted an inquiry on solar PV feed-in tariff rates today in Westminster. 
November 29, 2011
Pramac UK has opened a new showroom in the heart of London at the Building Centre. The new showroom aims to highlight Pramac’s approach to renewable energy generation by showcasing the Micromorph range of thin-film modules which are suitable for integrated, ground-mounted and rooftop applications. 
November 28, 2011
Andy Boroughs, Managing Director of Organic Energy, has called for ‘clarity and consistency’ from the Government following the unrest over recent proposals to cut the feed-in tariff rate and the announcement of the Green Deal consultation.
 
November 28, 2011
Councillor Jo Lovelock has written to the Prime Minister to ask for an extension until April before new cuts to the feed-in tariff come into effect. The letter is a direct response to the Government’s plans to slash the solar subsidy by over fifty percent. The proposed cut to the feed-in tariff rate has jeopardised Reading Council’s £5 million scheme, proposed back in August.
November 28, 2011
Cuts to the feed-in tariff have threatened Haringey Council’s solar scheme which was set to double London’s installed solar capacity. The scheme would have seen all suitable council-owned properties receive a solar installation in an effort to cut the council’s carbon emissions.

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