Solar Markets & Finance

Solar developer Kinetica Solar has slammed a lack of transparency and consistency over planning applications after its plans to construct a 22MW solar farm in North Tawton, Devon, were refused earlier this month.

MPs have poured scrutiny over government cuts to solar subsidies during yesterday’s second reading of the new Energy Bill.

The Department of Energy and Climate Change’s new feed-in tariff regime came into effect last Friday, but exactly how it will function has yet to be decided.

Conservative MP and candidate to replace Boris Johnson as London mayor Zac Goldsmith has unveiled a raft of pledges to support solar PV.

Israel-based inverter manufacturer SolarEdge has released its DC coupled StorEdge storage solution to the UK market.

The London Assembly has accused Amber Rudd of snubbing London’s solar industry after the energy secretary said she was too busy to meet with them to discuss changes to the feed-in tariff.

UK solar developers WElink Energy and British Solar Renewables (BSR) have signed a £1.1 billion deal with China National Building Materials Group (CNBM) to develop solar energy projects and zero-carbon homes in the UK.

Foresight Group has announced plans to continue the growth it experienced over 2015 with proposals for a new office in Manchester.

Firms seeking to make last-minute online applications to the current feed-in tariff have been given even less time to act due to online registration portals closing early today.

Investment in UK solar capacity fell by 30% year-on-year in 2015 despite the global upward trend, a new report by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) has found.