Commercial & Residential Solar

UK solar company Viridian Solar has cemented its status in the Dutch market with Netherlands-based wholesaler 4BLUE BV.

UK-based PassivSystems has been selected to supply smart energy management for a 1GW residential solar programme in Oman.

Small-scale solar PV installations have maintained their priority dispatch rights in Europe after a vote by European Union Member States last week.

Tesco is planning a major rollout of solar on the roofs of its stores in the UK, Solar Power Portal can reveal.

A new start-up energy supplier is aiming to become the ‘Uber of electricity’ by turning homes into personal power stations.

Almost £2 million in new European funding is to support the development of a “new wave” of energy projects in the South West.

The government’s Smart Export Guarantee (SEG), its eagerly awaited replacement for the soon-to-close export tariff, has been dubbed both a “new era” for solar and a “mountain to climb” as the proposals received a mixed response.

The government expects its proposed Smart Export Guarantee to have a positive, albeit notional impact on domestic solar deployment it has said.

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has unveiled a new ‘Smart Export Guarantee’ to replace the export tariff.

Solar and storage technologies would possess a “mutually beneficial interaction” in the Capacity Market (CM) should renewables be introduced into the mechanism, National Grid has said.