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Khosla Ventures, the venture assistance firm that focuses on cleantech and information technology startups, has formed a strategic partnership with Tony Blair Associates.

The MANCAT sixth form college in Manchester features Sharp modules on a two-storey solar façade. This installation was inspired by the installation at the CIS Tower.

This grid-connected roof mounted PV Array was installed by Ardenham Energy and commissioned by South Facing at the West Oxford Community Centre on the Botley Road in Oxford.

This grid connected roof mounted PV system, installed at Hawthorns School in Berkshire, has been installed and commissioned by Ardenham Energy after development work by TV Energy and Wokingham Borough Council.

The Amersham & Wycombe College installed solar photovoltaics onto the roof of a building at its Chesham campus, since the college was offering installer-training courses, which would lead to the City & Guilds certificate 2372, "Installing & Testing Photovoltaic (PV) Systems". The College felt that lecturers and students would find it beneficial having a local system, which they could actually experience the benefits of.

The 6.63kWp array installed at St. Edmunds School, London by Ecofirst is now grid-tied and retrofitted onto a metal-pitched roof. The system was installed in order to off-set demand of air conditioning.

The Bridport Children’s Centre in Dorset now features a grid-tied photovoltaic system, installed by Ecofirst Limited, using 24 Sharp ND-170 polycrystalline modules retro-fitted onto a tiled pitched roof.

This solar photovoltaic installation was completed in the summer of 2009, for the St Crispin School in Somerset.

Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth has awarded a Queen’s Enterprise Award, in the Innovation category, for the development of DuPont’s Solamet photovoltaic metallization paste. 

Julia Waterlow’s four-bedroom, early 19th century property, "Hollow House" in Lewes, East Sussex, features a 20m2 solar photovoltaic array, installed on her garage roof. The 2.43kWh system, which was installed by SolarUK in 2008, now produces 2410kWh a year, meaning her grid electricity bill only amounts to approximately £160 a year.