Solar Markets & Finance

A steady increase in local authority interest in ground-mount solar will not be affected by subsidy cuts, according to a consultant speaking at SEUK today.

The former management team of failed installer Mark Group has confirmed that it has successfully acquired its insulation arm, saving more than 200 jobs that were up for redundancy.

The UK market is capable of riding out current uncertainty and has a longer term sustainable future, an executive from Chinese inverter manufacturer Sungrow said during the Solar Energy UK event in Birmingham.

Conergy UK has said it remains strongly committed to the UK solar market despite the government’s green policy reset, but stressed there is no longer a “one size fits all” product for it.

All the live action from the third and final day of this year’s Solar Energy UK exhibition.

A video re-cap of all the highlights and insight from day two of Solar Energy UK 2015 as the conference continues at Birmingham’s NEC.

Every 1GW addition of solar that comes onto the grid, whether large-scale or domestic PV, reduces the wholesale price of electricity by £35 million, according to a Good Energy report, which is expected to come out in the next two weeks.

Some of the ‘more altruistic councils’ may be prepared to install solar PV on social housing with zero rates of return or even negative returns due to the social benefit, according to Chris Jardine, technical director, Joju Solar, who was speaking at Solar Energy UK today.

The government’s proposals to cut the feed-in tariff by up to 87% have resulted in “huge question marks” over housing associations’ drive to install solar on their rooftops, according to installer Solarplicity.

Solarcentury founder and world renowned environmentalist Jeremy Leggett has won the Solar Power Portal outstanding achievement award at this year’s Solar Power Portal Awards, held last night at The Vox, Birmingham NEC.