Solar Markets & Finance

Calls for the National Audit Office to investigate the Levy Control Framework (LCF) and assumptions made within it have intensified after it was revealed DECC expects wholesale energy prices to tumble.

British Renewables will have to wait until September to learn the fate of its proposed 25MW solar farm at Rampisham Down in Dorset.

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a warning to companies making nuisance calls to expect further fines, with more than £1 million of penalties already in the pipeline in the coming year.

Wattstor, which makes its own battery-based domestic and commercial energy storage systems for the UK, is offering free training sessions for installers around the country, starting this week.

The Advertising Standards Authority has warned Yorkshire-based installer DCT Electrical over an advertising campaign it deemed to be misleading.

UK solar start-up Naked Energy has signed an agreement with US-based manufacturer Jabil to scale up the production of its hybrid solar technology, Virtu.

As 2015 draws to a close, Solar Power Portal runs through some of the biggest and most interesting stories of the year. In our fourth and final part, we visit the government’s overhaul of the feed-in tariff and arguably its motivation for doing so; a mammoth quarter for solar deployment which took everyone – and particularly DECC – by surprise.

BayWa r.e’s Aston Clinton solar park has been sold to CEE, marking the third time the developer has sold one of its solar projects to the Hamburg-based firm.

As 2015 draws to a close, Solar Power Portal runs through some of the biggest and most interesting stories of the year. In part three, we take a look back at February’s CfD results which have since seen two winning projects stumble, and a high court ruling which may lead to the dismantling of a solar park in Wiltshire.

North Star Solar is set to deliver a new solar battery storage pilot scheme in four London boroughs as it tests battery combinations across 40 council homes.