Commercial & Residential Solar

Sedgmoor District Council has given planning permission to a 27-hectare solar farm near Highbridge in Somerset.

Lightsource Renewable Energy has launched an online portal designed to help local communities easily access and view proposals of planned solar farms.

Ofgem has published the latest quarterly report for the non-domestic Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) which shows that installed capacity under the scheme has topped 400MW.

A Liberal Democrat MP has called the development of solar farms in his constituency a “monstrous desecration of our natural environment”.

A former UK chief scientific adviser has called on all G20 countries to solve “world’s greatest problem” of climate change by developing low-cost solar energy.

Residential PV storage capacity could hit 2.5GW by 2017 as domestic solar generators increasingly look to consume the power they produce, a report claims.

The Energy and Climate Change Committee (ECCC) has warned that there are still several key issues facing the mainstream roll-out of smart meters in the UK.

Europe’s largest energy storage centre is hoping to demonstrate 70% of renewables can be integrated to the grid with new storage technology.

Birmingham-based solar manufacturer, Sunsolar Energy, has penned a deal with Meyer Burger Technology for a new production line.

The Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has announced plans to fund Green Deal crews to advise the public door-to-door, an initiative designed to boost uptake of the flagship energy efficiency programme