Commercial & Residential Solar

Every 1GW addition of solar that comes onto the grid, whether large-scale or domestic PV, reduces the wholesale price of electricity by £35 million, according to a Good Energy report, which is expected to come out in the next two weeks.

Some of the ‘more altruistic councils’ may be prepared to install solar PV on social housing with zero rates of return or even negative returns due to the social benefit, according to Chris Jardine, technical director, Joju Solar, who was speaking at Solar Energy UK today.

Solarcentury founder and world renowned environmentalist Jeremy Leggett has won the Solar Power Portal outstanding achievement award at this year’s Solar Power Portal Awards, held last night at The Vox, Birmingham NEC.

A video re-cap of all the highlights and insight from day one of Solar Energy UK 2015, which kicked off this morning at Birmingham’s NEC.

One UK energy storage company has compared its latest venture to the energy trading markets of California ISO, as it prepares to pay its customers for providing vital grid services through their residential systems.

Rolling coverage as the first day of Solar Energy UK kicks off at the NEC in Birmingham.

Diverter manufacturer Powerdiverter will be exhibiting its “next generation” of diverter products to Solar Energy UK, which gets underway tomorrow at Birmingham’s NEC.

Solar installers looking to diversify into new technologies should the government’s 87% cuts to the feed-in tariff come into force are looking at a large number of markets, a Solar Media survey has found.

We’ve been talking over the past few months with a large number of key and emerging players in the UK’s energy storage industry. With our show Solar Energy UK coming up next week, we thought this would be a good opportunity to share with you the thoughts of two of those players on the relationship between renewables and energy storage.

We are approaching the sixth annual Solar Energy UK conference and exhibition, hosted by our publisher Solar Media. Taking place next week amid challenging times for the UK PV industry, recognition of the potential of storage at the top level at last, and actions already underway by the industry, will be among the central topics of discussion, with more exhibitors and conference strands than ever before.