Commercial & Residential Solar

The European Commission has announced that it will refer the UK to the EU Court of Justice over the reduced VAT rate for the supply and installation of energy-saving materials, which includes solar PV and solar thermal modules.

Tollbrae Primary School in Airdrie, Scotland, has received a free solar array after winning an environmental competition run by Renewable Resources.

Hundreds of thousands of Scheuten-manufactured solar modules were yesterday declared a fire risk by the Dutch Food and Goods Authority (NVWA).

Following the publication of the updated MCS guide, I have been inundated with questions. On this page I will try to keep an updated list of the most common questions.

Scientists at the University of Sheffield and the University of Cambridge have developed a spray-coating technique for photovoltaic cells in a bid to reduce panel costs.

A year of record PV demand has seen the amount of solar installed in the UK exceed 2GW, according to the upcoming NPD Solarbuzz Marketbuzz 2013 report.

I am delighted to be at Sandown today, launching the first in a series of six Solar Roadshows across the UK. As the Roadshows journey across the UK, so can the industry grow on its foundations to reach out to new markets and customers, and succeed across the country.

The long-awaited update to the MCS’s guide to installing PV systems has been published today to mark the launch of the Restarting the Market Roadshows.

After 12 months of operation, Ecotricity’s 1MW solar park at Fen Farm has outperformed its original yield expectations despite enduring the wettest weather ever in to hit England.

One thousand council homes across Rhondda Cynon Taf Council in South Wales will benefit from the installation of solar PV in a bid to reduce the region’s fuel poverty numbers.