PV

With the deluge of large-scale solar farm applications, Finlay Colville looks at which counties are looking more favourably on solar applications and which are discouraging developments.

Cheshire-based renewable energy developer and energy cost reduction company Renewables 4 Business has completed the installation of a 681kWp rooftop solar power plant for a potato producer in north Lincolnshire.

Supermarket chain Booths has turned to solar PV to help reduce its energy bills after it installed an array on its cold store distribution centre near Preston.

Large-scale solar PV installations in the UK grew by an incredible 600% during 2013, driving the UK to a record 1.45GW of new solar PV capacity added.

In a year when large-scale, ground-mounted solar dominated UK deployment, it may come as a surprise to many that the UK ended up in sixth position globally for the most solar PV capacity installed in the small-scale segment.

Ian Lucas, MP for Wrexham, explains how “catastrophic” solar policy has caused Christmas heartache for 615 of his constituents

The ongoing saga surrounding energy bills in the UK is finally set to come to a head when George Osborne delivers the Autumn Statement on 5 December .

The UK has more than 4GW of PV projects in the pipeline but the majority is at the mercy of local planning authorities.

The news that Hinkley Point achieved a strike price of £92.50 per MWh, nearly four times the amount originally proposed, cannot but rankle with the British solar industry.

The strike price for Hinkley Point C nuclear power station announced on Monday was described by the government as a good deal for Britain. But as Seb Berry of Solarcentury and the Solar Trade Association argues, compared to technologies such as solar, it is anything but.