Large-Scale Solar

Early-stage plans to develop a 30MW solar farm on the site of an old airbase in the north east of Scotland have been revealed.

Indian PV module manufacturer Vikram Solar has been given tier one status.

Bluefield Solar Income Fund has announced that is has entered into a conditional contract to acquire its ninth large-scale solar farm, a 19MW project located to the north of Swindon.

ReneSola has confirmed that it will be supplying UK investor Low Carbon with 13MW of modules for a solar project in Wiltshire.

Lightsource Renewable Energy has completed its 80th solar farm project in the UK, a 30MW site located in Cornwall.

London-based PV company, Solarcentury has announced that it has passed the 100MW milestone for consented solar farms in the UK.

The European, Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (WEEE), guidelines for manufacturers of electrical products and electrical equipment for when the products become waste, must now be applied as national law.

UK developer AGRenewables (AGR) has teamed up with South Korea’s Hanwha Q Cells on a 23.4MW PV project in Stowbridge, Cambridgeshire.

Plane and train maker Bombardier has had plans for a 3.8MW solar farm at one of its manufacturing plants in Belfast approved by the environment minister for Northern Ireland, Mark Durkan.

Ahead of the launch of the domestic renewable heat (RHI), Waxman Training Academy has received approval to offer courses under the RHI Training Support Scheme (TSS).