Commercial & Residential Solar

Following the Department of Energy and Climate Change’s (DECC) awarding of a £7 million loan to the Green deal Finance Company, a host of solar companies have come forward to announce their involvement in the scheme. 

A £7m loan from the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to The Green Deal Finance Company (TGDFC) has been agreed today, coinciding with the opening of the register for Green Deal Providers, Assessors and Installers.

South West retailer, Mole Valley Farmers (MVF), has installed solar arrays on six of its nine stores across the region. In partnership with local installer, Source Renewable, 180kWp of solar capacity was installed on MVF’s suitable store estate.

Stow-based solar specialist, Freewatt has announced plans to add another 8,300 solar modules to its 1.14MW solar development at its Danes Farm development.

The Bristol Area Solar Installers Co-operative (BASIC) has begun the installation of the first solar panels in its innovative Lockleaze ‘Streets of Solar’ scheme. The solar scheme marks the first of a potential 300 arrays to be installed across the Lockleaze area of Bristol.

Renewable investment company, Abundance Generation, has announced the launch of its second crowd-funded renewable project – a solar energy venture in the South Downs, designed to help fund the installation of free solar panels in order to provide free electricity for locals.

German solar giant, Centrosolar, has launched an English-language version of its Centrocheck solar planning tool for the UK solar market. The online portal is designed to help UK installers create fully-customised system designs as well as providing homeowners an easy way to evaluate the solar potential of their property. 

The latest solar installation figures published by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) show that, in the run up to August 1, installations increased by 115 percent from 3,855 in the beginning of July to 8,305 for the week ending July 29. Last week alone, installations rose by 62 percent over the previous week – from 26MW to 42MW of installed capacity.

Caplor Energy has announced that it has been awarded the contract to install a commercial-scale solar PV system on one of the country’s largest business parks.

A year after 7,000 solar panels were fitted to the roof of Promens Packaging’s plant in Beccles, Suffolk, the installer behind the project has announced the generation of the array’s millionth unit of green electricity.