Large-Scale Solar

The BBC has reported that Dundee council may have to scrap its plan to install solar panels on all suitable council-owned properties.

The Local Government Association (LGA) has warned that thousands of fuel-poor families living in social housing will face steeper electricity bills as a result of cuts to the feed-in tariff.

Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) is to open a state-of-the-art training and operational facility for the renewable energy sector in Treforest, Wales. The £7 million SWALEC Smart Energy Centre, which has received £2 million in business support from the Welsh Government, is expected to create 250 new jobs in South Wales.

Bisol Group, one of Europe’s largest producers of solar modules, has received a salt mist corrosion certificate for all its solar photovoltaic modules, in accordance with the IEC 61701 standard.

Sanyo Component Europe, a subsidiary of Sanyo Electric, has revealed that as of April next year the branding of its well-known HIT1 solar modules will change from Sanyo to Panasonic. The move comes as part of a wider strategic move to consolidate branding across multiple areas under the Panasonic brand.

After Solar Power Portal last week reported that PV installations in the UK had begun to tail off, the latest DECC data reveals that a total of 83.121MW was added to the MCS database last week…

Bavarian solar specialist Antaris Solar has been awarded accreditation under the Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS) for its range of mono- and polycrystalline modules.

The tiny village of Garrigill, Cumbria, which houses less than 200 residents, has embraced solar technology, with at least half a dozen residents installing a solar PV system from Eco Environments.

The MCS installation database has buckled under the pressure of installers rushing to register systems before December 12, when the axe falls on the current 43.3p/kWh feed-in tariff rate, cutting it by more than half, down to 21.0p/kWh.

DECC has published the weekly solar PV installation and capacity graph that the Minister of State for Climate Change, Greg Barker, showed to the EAC and ECC during Tuesday’s inquiry into the proposed cuts to the feed-in tariff.