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Almost 150 solar modules now sit atop Taunton’s swimming pool after the local council commissioned the installation of a solar PV array to help the centre combat climbing energy bills.

The aerodrome at Dunsfold Park in Surrey is infamous as the home of BBC’s Top Gear test track and studios. However, the park now has another claim to fame; Dunsfold Park has become one of the nation’s only business parks to be fed entirely on ‘green energy’.

The fallout from the FiT fiasco last year saw many solar PV projects cancelled. However, after PV costs reduced by 50 percent last year and a further 30 percent this year, have you been too quick to cancel the project?

Warwick Independent School’s new sports centre extension will now be home to a renewable energy power plant, thanks to a solar PV installation by Williams Renewables Ltd.

Alan Scott, a gadget fan from Catcliffe South Yorkshire, has invested in his latest toy – a solar power plant for his semi-detached house.

After local Sustainable Parish Energy Partnership group, eCoton, organised a bulk purchase of solar PV modules last year, Cambridge-based solar installer Upbeat energy was able to offer a free solar PV system to a local school as a gift.

Wokingham Borough Council has reiterated its commitment to renewable energy by installing two solar PV arrays on local schools. Both Bulmershe and Forest schools now boast an 11.97kWp system and a 10.26kWp system respectively.

Herefordshire-based renewable installer, Caplor Energy, has installed one on the County’s largest solar PV installations under a new scheme being debuted by the company.

One of the largest roof-top solar arrays in the East of England has been installed by the Lincoln-based solar installer, Freewatt at John Saul Ltd farm, near Boston.

Ever since the feed-in tariff rate was axed in half from 43p to 21p the industry has been plagued by chronic confusion in the marketplace. Legal wranglings, deadlines, extensions; it was hard enough to keep on top of market developments for solar companies, let alone customers.