Large-Scale Solar

Global solar giant Hanwha Q Cells has bolstered its active UK solar portfolio by completing an 8.1MW solar farm in South Gloucestershire.

Kent-based solar installer Blue Sky Energy Solutions has secured a “colossal” investment worth £50 million from German developer Wirsol.

A solar farm with a capacity up to 50MW is being planned for Anglesey under the area’s Energy Island plans.

Veolia’s integrated waste management facility in Southwark, south London, is having what’s claimed to be one of the capital’s largest solar installations.

Plans have been submitted for the development of a 250kW ground-mounted solar array near Winchester Services off the M3 motorway.

Perth & Kinross Council has backed the installation of rooftop solar systems on four of its schools and the council’s own IT department building.

Nominations for 2015’s Solar Power Portal Awards are currently open. Returning for its third year, the Solar Power Portal Awards will take place on 13 October, the first evening of the sixth Solar Energy UK exhibition in Birmingham.

Manchester-based contractor, Styles&Wood has completed two solar PV arrays for The Fire Fighters Charity at its rehabilitation centres in Penrith and Littlehampton.

Clean energy entrepreneur and activist Jeremy Leggett has said “out of date thinking” is behind a push to make clean energy competitive with fossil fuels within 10 years that was launched today by prominent UK academics.

Allowing ‘established’ renewables access to the ring-fenced ‘less established’ budget under the Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme could slash £600 million a year off the cost of meeting the UK’s 2020 renewable energy target, according to analysis carried out by Baringa Partners.