Commercial & Residential Solar

A lack of familiarity and education among corporates, and complexity over deal arrangements, is stopping firms ‘crossing the Rubicon’ and signing up to power purchase agreements utilising on-site solar, according to a panel investors speaking at last week’s Solar & Storage Live.

Solar Power Portal has today published digital versions of all three copies of last week’s Solar & Storage Today daily newspapers.

Viridian Solar has penned another distribution deal outside of the UK, this time clinching an exclusive agreement in Norway.

A majority of the respondents in a new YouGov poll would support the UK matching incoming European Union regulations that guarantee payments for solar homes exporting into the grid; including those that voted to leave in the Brexit referendum.

All the photos from this week’s Solar Power Portal and Energy Storage News Awards, as the evening’s winners collect their awards.

EvoEnergy scooped an historic hat trick at last night’s Solar Power Portal and Energy Storage News Awards, retaining the Contractor of the Year Awards to round off a glittering gala dinner ceremony at the Hilton NEC Metropole.

Module price cuts, comfort with subsidy-free business models and an unexpected side effect of Brexit are all helping inverter manufacturer GoodWe’s UK business.

Global events company Terrapinn has acquired Solar & Storage Live from Solar Media Limited.

The government has heard industry concerns over the future of the export tariff “loud and clear”, but did admit there is “no new news” on inclusion of solar into the Contracts for Difference auctions or the future of small scale renewables.

Retail giant Amazon is to install 20MW of rooftop solar across its UK fulfillment centres within the next 18 months alongside battery storage aimed at delivering local and national flexibility services.