Commercial & Residential Solar

Chinese battery giant BYD is to launch a residential battery system for the UK market and host a series of training events for installers later this month.

Local authorities are still willing and able to invest in solar energy if installers can make the business case to do so, according to Nottingham City councillor Alan Clark.

Industry regulator Ofgem has confirmed that more than 27MW of unused residential feed-in tariff capacity will be rolled over for the Q2 cap.

Installer EvoEnergy has connected what it claims to be the UK’s largest solar car park on behalf of Nottingham City Council.

NextEnergy Solar Fund has clinched a major acquisition deal which will see it spend almost £100 million on an asset portfolio with a combined capacity of 84MW.

Foresight Solar Fund has secured two major refinancing deals with a total value of £200 million and announced that it has agreed to enter five-year power purchase agreements for all but one of its operational portfolio.

g2 Energy has said it completed work on 47 large scale ground mounted solar farms in the six months leading up to the early closure of the Renewables Obligation on 31 March, totalling 356.4MW.

The Bristol Energy Co-operative (BEC) has raised the £2 million needed to fund the purchase of a solar farm in Somerset as well as develop new projects in and around the city.

The 50kW+ cap was breached last week as installations in both this and the 0-10kW bands experienced record weeks under the new regime.

The Department of Energy and Climate Change’s solar forcasts have been heavily scrutinised in the past, but its estimate that just 11MW of solar was installed in February looks especially wide of the mark given the rush to comply with 1.3 ROC deadlines.