Commercial & Residential Solar

Carmarthenshire County Council has abandoned plans to install solar panels on approximately 2,700 council homes following Department for Energy and Climate Change proposals to slash the small-scale feed-in tariff.

The Microgeneration Certification Scheme’s (MCS) Installation Database will be offline for two house from 15:00 on Tuesday 15 September.

London’s iconic Tate Modern will soon be generating its own renewable electricity after the gallery revealed that it will install an 82kWp solar array this month.

Chester-based compliance support service provider, Qualitick, has urged installers to counter the government’s proposed cuts by exploring energy storage and maximising installs between now and the New Year.

Well it’s been a little while since I typed one of these. There are a few reasons (including a broken leg!), but mostly it’s due to being occupied with other projects – most significantly finishing the new IET Solar PV code of practice, which I am pleased to say should be published later this month.

Module manufacturer Hanwha Q CELLS has refinanced two UK solar farms totalling just over 45MW of capacity, signing a power purchase agreement (PPA) with EDF Energy for the electricity produced.

Shoreham-based steel manufacturer ParkerSteel has partnered with installer PerPetum Energy to fit a 1.8MWp rooftop solar array to the roof of its manufacturing facility.

The Next Energy News integrated renewables system award is designed to recognise the best low carbon energy project in the UK.

Solar Cloth Company chief executive Mike Staplehurst talks to Solar Power Portal about the need for the UK’s car parks and other redundant, Brownfield plots of land to adopt solar for energy generation.

European service provider, Adler Solar has partnered with solar safety supplier, viamon to complete a pilot project which has seen a UK solar farm retrofitted with theft protection equipment.