Commercial & Residential Solar

A trio of UK universities have been awarded £800,000 to fund research into how photosynthesis can help develop more efficient renewable energy.

A coalition of businesses, unions and charities have come together to urge the Prime Minister to raise attempts at tackling fuel poverty.

Higher Knapp Farm in the small village of Knapp, Somerset will soon be producing enough carbon-free electricity to run 442 local households, thanks to the approval of plans to develop a 1.5MW solar farm.

With the full launch of the Green Deal rapidly approaching, the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has announced that the list of eligible measures under the Green Deal has been expanded from 30 to 45.

The Science Museum is planning to install the UK’s largest solar farm at its big-object store in Wroughton, Wiltshire.

Neither solar PV nor thermal will qualify for the £125 million cash back scheme the government is launching to kick-start its flagship Green Deal initiative.

Renewable energy consumer body YouGen is calling for a change in the law after a review by the Office of Fair Trading revealed unscrupulous selling tactics by solar and other energy efficiency companies.

The government is poised to release details of the £125 million cash back scheme that it hopes will kick-start interest in its flagship Green Deal energy efficiency programme.

Irish PV project developer BNRG Renewables has obtained a 25-year planning permission from Shepway District Council’s Development Control Committee for its proposed 18MW solar array in New Romney in Kent.

Isle of Anglesey Council has approved plans for what is said to be Wales’ largest PV installation, a 15MW solar park at Tai Moelion Farm on the Bodorgan Estate in Anglesey.