Ben Godfrey, innovation and low carbon networks engineer at Western Power, speaks to Solar Power Portal about revisiting stagnant projects and how developers can best work with DNOs on connection applications.
Solar installer EvoEnergy has landed a contract to fit a 3.8MW rooftop PV installation, a project which it claims will be one of the five largest rooftop arrays in the country.
While the majority of the government’s recent changes to renewable energy subsidies will impact commercial and utility-scale installations the domestic market is still likely to feel the pinch.
Associated British Ports’ (ABP) Port of Barry has energised a 4.5MW solar farm as part of an effort to roll out renewable energy projects across all of its South Wales-based ports.
Doncaster City Council is aiming to install solar PV on around 6,000 council homes in order to tackle rising fuel poverty in the area, but it is not yet known whether a potential cut to the feed-in tariff would place the project in jeopardy.
Northern Ireland’s Fold Housing Association has committed more than £1 million to install solar PV panels on around 100 of its homes to help combat fuel poverty.
Solar Power Portal talks to Carter Jonas’ Andrew Watkin on how developers need to focus on the financial benefits of a solar installation when pitching to businesses following the consultancy’s 2015 Energy Index which labeled a 50kW solar rooftop to be the most attractive technology for investment.
The Department for Energy and Climate Change probably expected its proposed subsidy cuts to be roundly criticised by the renewables industry, but it just might be taken aback by the response from opposition ministers.
Onshore wind developer Banks Group has submitted formal plans to develop a 5MW solar array at the site of its Penny Hill wind farm two months after first revealing it was to move into solar.
