Commercial & Residential Solar

Swiss solar inverter specialist Sputnik Engineering is set to exhibit its new range of SolarMax MT2 string inverters at next week’s Ecobuild show.

A proposed installation of 13,244 ground mounted solar PV panels at Willsand in West Devon has been approved. The news follows a u-turn from West Devon Borough Council who initially rejected The Green Company’s proposal.

After dedicating a year of work to the project, community energy group, Repowering South London, has announced the launch of London’s first community-owned solar power project to be built on social housing.

Over 100 tenants in a Clydebank housing scheme have received solar panels as part of an initiative run by Knowes Housing Association.

Solar photovoltaics company Redland, a brand of the Monier Group, will be exhibiting four new solar PV products at this year’s Ecobuild in London.

East Lindsey District Council has installed £400,000 worth of solar photovoltaic panels across five sites. The solar arrays have been installed at the Meridian Leisure Centre and London Road Sports Ground, Louth; Embassy Swimming Pool and Embassy Theatre, Skegness; and Horncastle Swimming Pool.

Element Power Solar has announced the sale of two solar PV projects with a total capacity of 6MW to funds managed by alternative asset manager, Foresight Group.

The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has announced that it will provide £3.5 million worth of funding to help train energy assessors and installers to participate in the upcoming Green Deal.

I have been one of the speakers at the Solar Power UK – Coping with the Cuts road-show that has been running over the last few weeks … talking partly about the forthcoming changes to the PV guide and partly about Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs)…

Adverse weather conditions in the run up to the March 3 deadline might have caused some installers to miss out on registering FiT systems in time to beat DECC’s latest reference date.