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With the UK’s main political parties preparing to unveil their respective election manifestos, the Renewable Energy Association (REA) has unveiled its own equivalent on behalf of the UK’s green economy.

The second and last remaining solar farm to receive Contracts for Difference (CfD) funding under the initial auction has been connected to the grid.

The development costs of the last remaining solar project to receive Contracts for Difference (CfD) funding have spiralled following the UK’s decision to leave the EU.

Earlier this week Lightsource announced that it had connected the UK’s first CfD solar park, the Charity Farm project in Shropshire, but it’s a bittersweet moment for the industry as Charity Farm could well be the only solar CfD project to ever be connected. Is now the time to bring solar in from the cold?

Lightsource has confirmed that Charity Farm solar park in Shropshire has been connected to the grid, becoming the first solar project to do so under the Contracts for Difference scheme.