Commercial & Residential Solar

The London borough of Ealing is to extend its solar PV programme by 240 homes, building on a previous solar rollout.

Trina Solar has revealed that it has sold its 13.2MW solar farm located in Dorset to funds managed by Foresight Group.

With several key solar energy events coming up this quarter, Solar Power Portal runs down Solar Media’s UK event series.

Sir Ben Ainslie’s new sailing team’s headquarters in Portsmouth will be powered by solar following a partnership with renewable investor Low Carbon.

Investment firm Equinox Energy Capital has announced that it has purchased the rights to a 19MW solar farm in Cumbria from Reading-based solar developer, Livos Energy.

Solar PV installations are starting to gain traction in Scotland but more can be done to encourage uptake, according to WWF Scotland, Lightsource Renewable Energy and the Solar Trade Association.

NextEnergy Solar Fund (NESF) has acquired the rights to a 19.4MW solar farm at the former RAF Boxted airfield in Essex.

Solar investment ‘yield co’ NextEnergy Solar Fund has struck a deal to acquire 28MWp of additional PV generation capacity in the UK for £32.7 million, meaning the company now holds over 100MWp of such assets.

A Norfolk solar farm that at 49.9MW would be one of the UK’s largest has been given the go ahead.

Belectric UK and First Solar have connected one of the UK’s largest solar farms in Abingdon, Oxfordshire.