Andrew McLauchlan, technical director at Infrata, discusses how the secondary market is now spreading to portfolios of rooftops as asset managers begin to identify their potential value.
In collecting all the market data for completed solar farms in the UK – done up until the end of the UK fiscal year period to 31 March 2016 – we have uncovered another exclusive for UK solar farm trends, this time related to inverter supply.
Recent studies by the in-house research team at Solar Media’s Market Intelligence team can now exclusively reveal that Solarcentury has become the first company to install more than 500MW of solar PV capacity within the UK.
Finlay Colville, head of market intelligence at Solar Media, debates the UK market’s deployment over the last 12 months and, crucially, the first three of 2016 as EPCs begin to tot up their pre-ROC deadline activity.
There are two UK industries that, whilst once booming, are now struggling to cope with an artificially unlevel playing field. UK steel and UK solar find themselves in similar plights, but the government reaction and public perception of their problems couldn’t be further apart.
After years of impressive cost reduction and technological advances, extinguishing the scepticism of many more doubters than you might sometimes believe, Germany’s concept of ‘Energiewende’ (‘energy transition’) now faces its hardest task in scaling up – making it a global concept. Several of the speakers at last week’s Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue conference talked about the successes of the Energiewende and what the energy transition could teach the rest of the planet.
