Commercial & Residential Solar

Cheltenham-based legal firm BPE Solicitors has launched a new team which will work exclusively within the renewable energy industry.

Solar capacity in the UK could reach 18GW by 2020, and could soar to even higher levels if policy support for other technologies is diverted to solar in the wake of policy changes according to the latest Future Energy Scenarios report issued by the National Grid.

Nordic energy giant Vattenfall is aiming to install a 5MW solar array at the site of its Parc Cynog wind farm in Camarthenshire, 14 years after the location was first redeveloped.

A trio of prisons in Scotland are to receive rooftop solar installations this week after installer Campbell & Kennedy won a tender process started at the end of March.

Senseye co-founder Alexander Hill talks to Solar Power Portal about the UK’s “stagnant” O&M market, and how better solutions could help asset managers squeeze every last drop out of solar farms.

British Solar Renewables’ proposed solar farm at Rampisham Down would pose no threat to the local environment, a “ground breaking” ecological study has claimed.

A decision is set to be made this evening over a 5MW solar farm planned for development on the site of a former quarry.

Hackney’s Premises Studio is still going strong 10 years after becoming the UK’s first solar-powered studio and can be an example for London’s huge commercial sector to follow

More than 3,000 households and businesses across four Norfolk councils have landed savings of up to 19% on solar systems as part of a collective purchasing agreement.

The National Trust is to make its “biggest ever” investment in renewable energy, pledging £30 million to install various generation technologies across its estate.