Commercial & Residential Solar

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.

Belgian solar PV company, Enfinity, has revealed that its UK division more than doubled its target last year, supplying 6.5MW of solar PV systems across Great Britain.

New figures released by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) show that install rates are continuing to climb ahead of the next round of feed-in tariff cuts, due on August 1.

Local authorities will have to publish a report on their plans to achieve improved energy efficiency in their area by March 31, 2013, according to new guidelines issued under the Home Energy Conservation Act (HECA).

Shropshire council has completed the installation of solar arrays on 17 schools across the county, with the help of solar installer SolarTech Ltd. The £1.5 million project saw over 3,000 solar panels fitted to the schools in just four weeks.

Great Glemham Farms has partnered with renewable installer, AGReneewables, to propose the development of a 15MW solar park near the Suffolk village of Great Glemham.