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Over 450 homes throughout the Midlands and the South East are now powered by the sun after the completion of Street Energy’s 1.2MW rent-a-roof scheme.

Set up in 2010, Solar Solutions has gone from strength-to-strength despite the recent troubles facing the solar industry. Solar Power Portal caught up with the company’s Managing Director, David McCann to find out what’s been driving the success.

The University of Durham’s historic campus has long been one of the North East’s most treasured jewels, but the sprawling nature of the campus had long meant that the University’s core administrative services were scattered across the city.

Last March, with the help of the Renewable Energy Cooperative (R-ECO), Cornwall College was able to install and register three different solar systems before the feed-in tariff reductions took hold. Six months later the college has revealed the extent of its savings.

The latest installation figures show that the residential market is beginning to show serious signs of recovery, but is it enough to support the 4,500 MCS-registered solar companies?

An apparent shock energy policy announcement at Prime Minister’s questions has plunged the Coalition Government into crisis management mode as Labour accuses Government of making up an energy policy “like something out of The Thick Of It”, in reference the BBC comedy satirising the manipulation of hapless ministers by the government spin machine.

Lewes District Council’s Wave Leisure centre is a particularly high user of energy, as such, the council was keen to investigate ways in which it could reduce the centre’s electricity bills.

This summer Hamish Janson installed 100 solar modules at his farm in Newton Valence with the help of Godalming-based leasing experts, Reality Finance Solutions.

Sanitov Studios is a design think tank charged with developing sustainable urban designs. The think tank’s latest project was inspired by an ambition to not only develop one of the most sustainable homes in London, but also develop one of the most affordable.

In a nutshell, microinverters convert direct current (DC) into alternating current (AC) for the grid directly from each individual solar panel, rather than through a central string inverter system, increasing the productivity, reliability and ease of installation of solar systems. The idea is not a new one, but for decades microinverter technology struggled to get off the ground.