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In a bid to build on its commercial team and scale up its ‘demonstrator’ product manufacturing, MTI Partners has completed a £650,000 investment round in Oxford Photovoltaics (OPV), an Oxford University spin-out Materials/Cleantech company developing solid-state dye sensitized solar cells for the building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) sector.

Thin-film solar company Solar Frontier has received Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS) accreditation for its SF130-150 series CIS modules. Delivered by BRE Global the MCS certification, combined with IEC 61646, IEC 61739 and UL 1703 certification, allows for Solar Frontier’s modules to be carried throughout the UK.

Seaward has developed a new dedicated software program for the solar PV industry, helping system installers to produce all electrical test documentation for client handover packs quickly and easily. The Seaward SolarCert Elements software is designed to aid installers in when generating comprehensive folders of system information including customised test certification and inspection reports, installation layout diagrams, photographs and any other information relevant to PV installation.

Bournemouth Council housing is all set for a solar makeover as a proposal to install photovoltaic panels on 200 homes receives positive feedback. Following the successful roll-out of a number of solar systems in the area over the past two months, Cabinet members are being asked to extend the area’s renewable ambition.

A loophole in the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) feed-in tariff policy documents is set to be closed as companies rush to take advantage of higher incentive rates. The escape clause, which is only just beginning to gain publicity after being suppressed by DECC for some time, provides UK project…

Working to clean up the often dirty transport image, Bournemouth Airport has installed a 74.98kWp solar photovoltaic array as part of its £45m redevelopment programme. By utilising the technology at its new arrivals hall the seaside location is now believed to house Europe’s first carbon neutral airport building. 

Government has today revealed a £15 million scheme to encourage households across the UK to go green. The ‘Renewable Heat Premium’, which will run from August 1 this year until March 2012, will support up to 25,000 installations countrywide.

Under a new solar module supply deal, Wagner Solar UK will distribute 4.2MW of ET Solar modules during the second half of 2011. Wagner has been procuring PV modules from ET Solar for more than a year.

Overcoming the constraints of the fast-track review once more, Lark Energy has this week completed its second large-scale solar park in the UK. Following the successful commissioning of the 4.89MWp Hawton solar farm, the 4.51MWp project at Marston, near Grantham in Lincolnshire, is now generating solar energy for…

REB2B has supplied the modules and inverters for a 74.3kW industrial rooftop installation at PFG Fabrication in Bampton, Mid Devon.  Comprising 354 Sovello SV-X210 PV modules, the completed system exceeds the 50kW limit imposed by Government, and therefore beats the feed-in tariff cuts due on the first of next month.