The Department of Energy and Climate Change’s impact assessment accompanying today’s feed-in tariff announcement has revealed that it expects there to be 5.2GW less solar deployed by 2020 and as many as 18,700 jobs to be lost in the industry.
Custom Solar has entered into a new partnership with Derbyshire County Cricket Club that will see 550 solar panels installed at the 3aaa County Ground.
The UK arm of international solar developer Conergy has launched a solar schools initiative with the development of a 60kWp installation on a school in West Bromwich.
The Renewable Energy Association has slammed the results of an auction held to ensure the country has enough available capacity to avoid blackouts, with 153MW of energy storage bidding unsuccessfully in the tender.
Up to 1,000 Darlington council homes are set to benefit from the installation of solar panels as the local authority races to complete the work before government proposals to cut subsidies are implemented.
An agreement of the world’s countries to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius by the end of the century has been lauded internationally, but many have continued to express doubts over the UK’s recent policy decisions.
Leading solar module supplier Trina Solar has withdrawn from the European Union’s price undertaking and will instead service its European customers through overseas manufacturing facilities.
