Solar Markets & Finance

West Lindsey District Council has granted planning permission for a 50MW solar park on the site of a former RAF base in Lincolnshire.

Company has targeted UK and Germany first with plans to follow-up with registration in France and Italy.

German PV company Conergy has successfully installed four solar plants in the UK with a total installed capacity of 39MW.

The available rate of Renewable Obligation (RO) support for solar developments has dropped from 1.6ROCs to 1.4ROCs as of 1 April, 2014.

The minimum price that Chinese manufacturers can charge EU buyers will fall to €0.53/W for the second quarter of 2014, Solar Power Portal has learned.

Foresight Solar Fund has announced that it has completed a further three solar farms totalling 39.6MW of new capacity.

The Renewables Infrastructure Group (TRIG) has announced that has expanded its portfolio after acquiring two solar farms in the South West with a combined generating capacity of 30.4MW.

The residents of Balcombe, the small West Sussex village best known for being at the centre of a hectic 2013 protest against UK fracking in the surrounding area, have launched their own renewable energy co-operative in an effort to generate their own power through community-owned facilities.

The Building Research Establishment (BRE) National Solar Centre (NSC) has completed an extensive survey and report of the UK solar power industry in 2013.

PassivSystems announced it has won a contract to provide its monitoring systems for Macquarie’s free PV roll-out.