Commercial & Residential Solar

The available rate of Renewable Obligation (RO) support for solar developments has dropped from 1.6ROCs to 1.4ROCs as of 1 April, 2014.

Foresight Solar Fund has announced that it has completed a further three solar farms totalling 39.6MW of new capacity.

The Renewables Infrastructure Group (TRIG) has announced that has expanded its portfolio after acquiring two solar farms in the South West with a combined generating capacity of 30.4MW.

The largest airport PV system in Britain has successfully been installed at London Southend Airport as part of a £10 million terminal expansion built by Kier Construction.

The residents of Balcombe, the small West Sussex village best known for being at the centre of a hectic 2013 protest against UK fracking in the surrounding area, have launched their own renewable energy co-operative in an effort to generate their own power through community-owned facilities.

The Building Research Establishment (BRE) National Solar Centre (NSC) has completed an extensive survey and report of the UK solar power industry in 2013.

PassivSystems announced it has won a contract to provide its monitoring systems for Macquarie’s free PV roll-out.

The UK may be adding three more PV plants to its growing utility solar power sector, as a 16.2MW project was approved near Llanelli, Wales while two plants with the generating capacity to power over 3,200 homes have been proposed for the towns of Duckmanton and Hillingdon.

John Laing Environmental Assets Group Limited (JLEN), a newly created investment company monitored by John Laing Capital Management Limited, has successfully fundraised £160 million to invest in a portfolio of solar, wind and waste processing projects in the UK.

The Nottingham City Council approved plans to develop the UK’s largest PV canopy at two of the city’s Park and Ride sites.