Commercial & Residential Solar

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.

Social housing contractor Forrest has won a contract worth £3 million to install solar PV on Southway Housing Trust homes across South Manchester.

More than two thirds of MCS installers would consider becoming Green Deal suppliers, according to new research by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC).

Chinese module manufacturer Jetion Solar has secured an order totalling 46MW for two solar farms in the UK.

Altrincham-headquartered property company, Styles & Wood has installed solar across three new health centres in East Lancashire.

Portuguese solar developer Martifer Solar has sold the project rights for a 4.27MW solar farm development in Exeter to Zurich-headquartered solar company, Smartenergy Renewables AG.

London-based developer, Solarcentury is extending an existing 14.8MWp solar farm site at Hardingham in Norfolk with an extra 5.3MW.