Commercial & Residential Solar

A wrap-up of recent solar project news including a charity in West Sussex that will save thousands on its energy bills, Lidl’s Irish solar expansion and why First Solar panels installed in Lancashire are ‘coming home’.

Birds can build nests under rooftop PV panels, which can result in sound pollution or damage to the panels and PV system.

Oxford PV has secured £34 million in new funding, partly from Meyer Burger, for a 200MW heterojunction (HJT) solar cell line.

E.On has unveiled a range of interest-free financing options for domestic solar and storage in the UK, helping consumers spread installation costs.

The Conservative Environmental Network (CEN) has released its manifesto, outlining ideas for how the Conservative Party could tackle the climate emergency, including the removal of barriers to solar and storage.

The solar industry has hit back at official government deployment statistics, arguing that without an improved collation system they have become “meaningless”.

Shell-owned energy storage firm sonnen has appointed Gavin Stokes as its new UK & Ireland country director, tasking him with growing the firm’s residential storage footprint.

A 1.7MWp solar farm is to be built at Doncaster Sheffield Airport (DSA), financed by the airport’s investors the Peel Group.

Viridian Solar continues its expansion through a new partnership to bring its roof integrated solar to the Republic of Ireland.

A fresh round of collective solar purchasing schemes is to launch across the UK this September, this time hoping to incorporate domestic storage.