Commercial & Residential Solar

Early-stage plans to develop a 30MW solar farm on the site of an old airbase in the north east of Scotland have been revealed.

Indian PV module manufacturer Vikram Solar has been given tier one status.

Bluefield Solar Income Fund has announced that is has entered into a conditional contract to acquire its ninth large-scale solar farm, a 19MW project located to the north of Swindon.

ReneSola has confirmed that it will be supplying UK investor Low Carbon with 13MW of modules for a solar project in Wiltshire.

Lightsource Renewable Energy has completed its 80th solar farm project in the UK, a 30MW site located in Cornwall.

London-based PV company, Solarcentury has announced that it has passed the 100MW milestone for consented solar farms in the UK.

Homeowners taking out Green Deal measures could claim up to £4,000 under the Department of Energy and Climate Change’s revised Green Deal cashback scheme.

The European, Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (WEEE), guidelines for manufacturers of electrical products and electrical equipment for when the products become waste, must now be applied as national law.

From 1 March, solar arrays installed with inverters that do not comply with G83/2 may lead to the DNO refusing to connect your project. Martin Cotterell explains what installers should be looking out for and how to prepare for the new requirements.

UK developer AGRenewables (AGR) has teamed up with South Korea’s Hanwha Q Cells on a 23.4MW PV project in Stowbridge, Cambridgeshire.