Commercial & Residential Solar

Allowing ‘established’ renewables access to the ring-fenced ‘less established’ budget under the Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme could slash £600 million a year off the cost of meeting the UK’s 2020 renewable energy target, according to analysis carried out by Baringa Partners.

The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has doubled its estimate for solar deployment in the UK throughout Q1 2015, upgrading its total deployment forecast to 6.5GW.

Solarcentury has said that the “stylish” Sunstation rooftop panels it has unveiled this week will spark a “major shift” in the UK’s adoption of solar systems.

Mayor of London Boris Johnson is backing plans proposed by the London Sustainable Development Commission (LSDC) to turn the capital into a major European clean technology hub.

Electricals wholesaler Moss Electrical is to invest in a 1.1MW rooftop solar system at the firm’s Dartford headquarters.

Manufacturing giant Bombardier has completed the 3.8MW rooftop solar array atop its east Belfast manufacturing facility.

Solar developer INRG Solar has submitted plans to build a 6.35MW solar array on farm land near Newby West, Carlisle.

Solar energy developer Kinetica has brought its 39.2MW Raventhorpe Solar Farm online in a development with steel giant Tata Steel.

Wiltshire Council has refused planning permission for a 12MW solar farm to be constructed by Sun Edison one mile away from a controversial solar array.

Stafford Rangers Football Club has gone solar with a 50kWp rooftop installation fitted to the roof of its Marston Road stadium.