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DECC recently put out plans for consultation into new ways to support community energy projects. Hannah Lovegrove explains why making sure communities take part in that and understand how a project can benefit them will be crucial.

The Department of Energy and Climate Change’s review of large-scale solar support is the death knell of the marginal technology idea, argues Gaynor Hartnell

Developers across the UK feel like they have been dealt a “kick in the teeth” by the government’s latest proposals to constrain the deployment of solar in the UK. From April 2015, the government wants to remove all RO support for solar developments over 5MW.

Karl Harder argues that renewable subsidy decisions should be taken out of politicians’ hands in the same way that interest rates were back in 1997.

The upcoming review for solar’s support under the RO has the Solar Trade Association’s Leonie Greene more concerned than she has ever been before.

Kent-based security company, Green Gate Access Systems, has installed the UK’s first solar-powered parking barriers at Warwick Hospital.

Hendy Group’s Van and Truck Centre in Chandler’s Ford near Southampton is generating its own electricity after the installation of a solar array.

Here at YouGen we’re all about promoting quality and excellence, and helping put consumers in touch with the best installers. That’s why we’ve teamed up with Solar Power Portal to support the Installer of the Year category in this year’s Solar Power Portal Awards 2014.

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’.