Commercial & Residential Solar

British renewable energy company Solarsense has finished installing an 80kWp solar array on the roof of the UK’s first shopping outlet centre, Clarks Village, in Somerset.

Proposals to install a 2.4MW solar farm on a gravel pit field close to the New Forest National Park have been approved by planning officials.

Wolseley UK, a subsidiary of plumbing and heating product distributor Wolseley plc, has installed a 2MW, 8,200 module PV array on the roof of its National Distribution Centre (NDC) in Leamington Spa.

Chinese solar manufacturer ReneSola has announced that it has supplied 2,000 of its modules for a series of new housing projects in the UK.

Yingli Solar has provided Solarcentury with 10MW of modules for a project on the Isle of Sheppey.

The Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS) has confirmed that it is delaying the implementation of MCS 012 until June 30, 2014.

The government is to preserve a key planning rule that enables local authorities to secure on-site renewable energy generation in new buildings.

PV developer Dragon Energy Solutions has successfully added a 250kWp PV system on the training facility at the Parc y Scarlets rugby stadium located in Llanelli, South Wales.

A judge has ordered a judicial review of a 28MW planned solar farm in Dorset following protest from a local resident.

More than 50 companies have signed an open letter to communities and local government secretary, Eric Pickles, to keep a key planning rule that requires on-site renewable energy generation in new UK buildings.