With Labour now ramping up the pressure over the controversial increase to commercial PV business rates, new chancellor Philip Hammond has the perfect opportunity to build bridges.
Labour has stepped up its pressure on the government over proposed increases in business rates taxation on solar installations and launched a campaign against the plans.
Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has labelled cuts to the small-scale feed-in tariff “nonsensical” during a speech launching a pledge to invest £300 million in low-carbon technology.
Lightsource has appointed Big Four consultancy Deloitte and real estate giant Cushman & Wakefield to help support the developer’s private wire solar push.
The UK government should adopt an entirely new home improvement scheme which would see income from renewable energy subsidies used to pay back the cost of installation, according to a report from Conservative think tank Bright Blue.
Energy union GMB has slammed an interview given by new National Grid executive director Nicola Shaw in which she lauded the potential of a smart energy revolution in the UK as “fanciful nonsense”.
UK supermarket giant Sainsbury’s has said that commercial rooftop solar is a crucial element to its sustainability plans and revealed that it is currently experimenting with battery storage technologies.
In-house market research conducted by Solar Media Ltd can now reveal exclusively that the UK added 223MW of new solar PV during the second quarter of 2016.
