PV

DECC’s announcement that commercial and industrial rooftop solar systems over 50kWp will no longer require planning from as early as this summer was welcome news for the solar industry.

Five apartments located in the North Kent coastal town of Whitstable have become the UK’s first domestic properties to achieve a Standard Assessment Procedure rating of ‘AA’.

At the recent Large Scale Solar UK Conference in Kelham Hall, Nottingham, NPD Solarbuzz vice-president Finlay Colville delivered a presentation on the state of the UK solar PV market. In the second of two blogs, Colville focuses on the current project pipeline of UK solar farms.

There is much to be positive about in the Community Energy Strategy argues Stephen Cirell, however, the department of energy and climate change’s focus on mandatory public ownership could be misplaced.

At the recent Large Scale Solar UK Conference in Kelham Hall, Nottingham, NPD Solarbuzz vice-president Finlay Colville delivered a presentation on the state of the UK solar PV market. In the first of two blogs, the UK solar PV market is shown within the context of European and global PV developments in 2014

Britain faces a stark conservation challenge and large-scale solar is a friend not a foe. Peter Bennett explores the symbiotic potential for the country’s at risk species and the development of solar PV.

Mount Pleasant Health Centre in Exeter has fitted solar modules to its roof to help tackle its escalating energy bills.

A prominent UK builders merchant successfully retrofitted power optimisers to help boost disappointing PV generation.

The third iteration of UK government support for renewable will be introduced in 2017. Gaynor Hartnell explores what implications the move to Contracts for Difference (CfDs) will have on the UK’s solar sector.

Gaynor Hartnell explores the recent “open” disagreement between Cameron and Clegg on onshore wind energy and examines whether it has any implications for solar.