Solar Markets & Finance

Liam Stoker reflects on this week’s election, a controversial outcome and stresses the importance for May not to abandon her climate commitments to keep her grip on power.

Today’s surprise general election result of a hung parliament has led to increasing concern within the renewables industry that the government’s eagerly anticipated Clean Growth Plan (CGP) could be delayed once more.

John Laing Environmental Assets Group (JLEN) has completed the acquisition of four operating solar farms with a total generating capacity of 33.5MW for just £12.2 million from sPower Holdings, buying up its entire portfolio of UK projects.

Solar Media is delighted to announce that it has received a record number of nominations for this year’s Solar Power Portal Awards.

Module manufacturer Canadian Solar has started the sales process for 150MW of solar in the UK as part of a much wider operational asset sell-off.

Solarcentury has continued its expansion into Latin America by delivering a 40MW project in Chile on behalf of Energia Cerro El Morado.

Liam Stoker looks back at the contributing factors to UK solar’s record-breaking half-hour last Friday as the industry sets its sights on further landmarks to come this summer.

Utility Eneco UK has snapped up an operational commercial rooftop solar portfolio topping 7.5MW from supplier Kingspan Energy.

Prolific solar developer Solarplicity has entered the UK’s energy supply market by acquiring clean energy utility Lo CO2 Energy.

The Conservative Party has omitted any mention of solar PV in its second consecutive general election manifesto.