David Cameron has continued to defend the government’s position on clean energy policy during today’s Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs), claiming Britain is leading a “renewables revolution”.
Trade body Scottish Renewables has called for Scotland to derive half of its total energy demand from renewables by 2030 ahead of this year’s Scottish election.
The 3.8MW rooftop solar installation at Lyreco’s distribution centre in Telford is nearing completion, and is set to save the building owner around £53,000 in annual electricity costs.
Energy4All has raised over £5.5 million for its four recent community share offers, but has claimed that these could be the last to achieve such success in light of recent changes to government policy.
David Cameron has dismissed claims that the UK government is backsliding on its green policies as “total and utter nonsense” while answering questions put forward by the Liaison Committee.
Ireland’s solar market could be as large as 1GW by 2020 but looks set to be significantly overcrowded, with applications totalling two or three-times that figure expected.
A surge in planning applications for solar farms in North Lincolnshire has prompted the council to issue a supplementary planning document (SPD), outlining the adoption of new requirements.
British Solar Renewables (BSR) has been hit with a £250,000 fine after a worker was left with severe injuries suffered from electrocution at one of the company’s solar farm sites.
