Commercial & Residential Solar

Solarcentury’s recent community consultation has revealed decent public support for its proposed solar farm in Oxfordshire.

Plans for a 5MW solar park on the former Gedling Colliery site in Nottingham have been approved by the local council.

The Solar Trade Association has published 10 commitments for solar farm developers to help ensure best practice in the increasingly controversial sector.

Solar thermal installations in July represented the lowest monthly deployment in all of 2013, according to statistics published by the STA, the HHIC and the ICOM energy association.

Small-scale PV storage has not yet taken off in the UK. However, the necessary technical and commercial drivers could kick in soon and rapidly change this situation, and when they do, we need to be ready, says Martin Cotterell

The UK’s first large-scale battery has been connected to the grid in Orkney.

The latest PV installation figures released by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) show that less than 50kW installations have hit around 6MW-a-week.

A civic solar farm, thought to be the first to be built in Lincolnshire and only the second of its kind in the UK, is being planned by West Lindsey District Council.

Reports that Britain could be facing blackouts has prompted demand for GreenKit’s energy storage kit to dramatically rise.

A disused landfill site in Westbury could be repurposed into a 3.5MW solar farm following a planning application from the site’s operator, Viridor.