Large-Scale Solar

The UK may be adding three more PV plants to its growing utility solar power sector, as a 16.2MW project was approved near Llanelli, Wales while two plants with the generating capacity to power over 3,200 homes have been proposed for the towns of Duckmanton and Hillingdon.

John Laing Environmental Assets Group Limited (JLEN), a newly created investment company monitored by John Laing Capital Management Limited, has successfully fundraised £160 million to invest in a portfolio of solar, wind and waste processing projects in the UK.

The Nottingham City Council approved plans to develop the UK’s largest PV canopy at two of the city’s Park and Ride sites.

British renewable energy company Solarsense has finished installing an 80kWp solar array on the roof of the UK’s first shopping outlet centre, Clarks Village, in Somerset.

Proposals to install a 2.4MW solar farm on a gravel pit field close to the New Forest National Park have been approved by planning officials.

Wolseley UK, a subsidiary of plumbing and heating product distributor Wolseley plc, has installed a 2MW, 8,200 module PV array on the roof of its National Distribution Centre (NDC) in Leamington Spa.

Chinese solar manufacturer ReneSola has announced that it has supplied 2,000 of its modules for a series of new housing projects in the UK.

Yingli Solar has provided Solarcentury with 10MW of modules for a project on the Isle of Sheppey.

The Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS) has confirmed that it is delaying the implementation of MCS 012 until June 30, 2014.

The government is to preserve a key planning rule that enables local authorities to secure on-site renewable energy generation in new buildings.