Commercial & Residential Solar

A planning application for a landmark solar and storage development has been submitted which could result in the largest solar development to be built in Wales.

A unique ‘council solar bond’ has been launched by Swindon Borough Council in what is reportedly the first example of a local authority and members of the local residents investing together in a community solar project.

Developers of a solar farm that last year had its planning permission quashed by the High Court have been given a reprieve at the Court of Appeal.

Barnsley Council has been forced to suspend plans to fit solar on more than 5,000 council houses and other public buildings following cuts to the feed-in tariff.

The Department of Energy and Climate Change has claimed around 83MW of rooftop solar was deployed just before the regime changed in mid-January and revised its installation figures for December 2015.

Transport for London is to experiment with the use of solar to create an ‘intelligent street’ near London’s busy Oxford Street.

With domestic funding opportunities for UK solar drying up, a number of firms are looking further afield for opportunities to develop new products and opportunities. Chris Moore from Dyesol UK explains how firms can get involved in the Horizon 2020 programme.

Greenpeace has claimed the next London mayor could increase solar deployment in the capital tenfold through a series of measures designed to make solar panels more attractive for Londoners.

Southill Community Energy (SCE) has launched what it claims will be one of the last community energy share offers following changes to government support for solar energy.

OPDE has completed the first phase of construction on three solar farms after having to break them up in to smaller developments following cuts to government subsidy.