Commercial & Residential Solar

The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has confirmed that there were more than 15,000 solar PV installations in London as of last month, totalling more than 52MW in generation capacity.

The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has urged the government to take immediate action to meet its commitments on climate change and criticised it over recent policy decisions.

Householders near the UK’s largest community-owned solar farm will be able to consume the electricity it generates as part of a new ‘locally grown energy’ trial.

The UK’s largest solar PV operator, Lightsource Renewable Energy has inked a two-year deal with the FIA Formula E Championship. Solar Power Portal was on hand at London’s inaugural Formula E race to discover why solar PV and Formula E make for a perfect match.

The CEO of Formula E has told Next Energy News that he views solar as the “future of world energy”. In an exclusive interview with Solar Power Portal’s sister site, Alejandro Agag said that, while it’s key focus was to “change the perception of electric cars”, the championship also has a focus on upstream energy developments.

South Cambridge District Council is to install solar panels on 1,000 additional council houses, adding to the council’s already extensive PV roll-out.

Portsmouth Naval Base is expecting to save more than £1 million on its energy bills over the next 20 years after installing a 500kW rooftop solar system.

Nominations for 2015’s Solar Power Portal Awards are currently open. Returning for its third year, the Solar Power Portal Awards will take place on 13 October, the first evening of the sixth Solar Energy UK exhibition in Birmingham.

Ethical investment platform Abundance has launched a new solar investment opportunity which aims to install 500 rooftop solar installations under the Green Deal, taking its available renewable energy investment portfolio to £4 million.

British energy storage start-up Powervault is aiming to become the leading energy storage provider in the UK after raising £700,000 through crowd-funding platform Crowdcube.