Now I don’t know if you were affected by the power cuts over the holiday period, but some of the media coverage regarding the power outages made me consider the attitude we have to our electricity supply.
China Sunergy has agreed a deal with Lightsource Renewable Energy to purchase the Chinese module manufacturer’s 5MW project in Cornwall which was completed in March 2013.
Renewable energy supplier, Good Energy has been granted provisional planning permission for a 49.9MW solar plant, the largest under development in the UK.
Over 495,000 homes across the UK are now solar powered, according to the latest statistics published by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC).
British Solar Renewables has been granted planning permission by Wiltshire Council to build a 5.85MW solar farm on land adjacent to a sewage treatment works and Westbury Business Park.
The weekly number of sub 50kW solar photovoltaic installations has broken through the 10MW barrier for only the fourth time this year and for the first time ever with no imminent feed-in tariff cut.