Commercial & Residential Solar

A £10 million fund has been launched to support community renewable projects, including solar.

Tesco is to install around 5MW of rooftop solar PV across its UK site portfolio after penning a PPA agreement.

Campbell & Kennedy (C&K) has shuttered its energy division, weeks after completing a milestone solar installation, Solar Power Portal can reveal.

Solar Power Portal has today launched a new survey in a bid to determine just how effective recent policy movements in the UK energy market could prove for domestic solar.

A community solar scheme to install solar PV on local buildings is being launched by community co-op MaidEnergy.

Solar’s role in delivering net zero is being vastly underestimated as new research reveals it could provide 20% of UK electricity by 2030.

Details of the government’s Smart Export Guarantee (SEG) emerged earlier this week, eliciting responses that range from calling it “better than nothing” to welcoming an end to the “ongoing tragedy” of the policy gap between the feed-in tariff (FiT) and the SEG.

Solar inverter specialist SolarEdge is deploying augmented reality (AR) technology to show off distributed energy’s real-world capabilities.

The policy gap between the feed-in tariff (FiT) and the Smart Export Guarantee (SEG) is set to close by the end of 2019, guaranteeing payment for excess domestic solar generation.

A collapse in the number of residential solar installs has prompted politicians to call for urgent action to fix renewables’ “policy void”.