policy

Energy minister Claire Perry has remained tight-lipped over the future shape of the Smart Export Guarantee (SEG) as her department begins to pour over responses to its consultation on the matter.

Solar Media’s in-house editorial team highlights five key themes that emerged from last week’s Energy Storage Summit 2019, which took place at a crucial time for the industry.

Political pressure on the government’s decision to close the feed-in tariff with no replacement scheme in place has ratcheted up ahead of the closure of a consultation on the future of solar policy in the UK.

Certi-fi’s Manufacturer Electrical Energy Storage System (EESS) Scheme has seen a “significant rise” in manufacturers wanting to receive the certification.

The decision to scrap the Zero Carbon homes policy is costing occupants of new-build homes more than £200 per year, essentially three times the targeted savings from Ofgem’s price cap.

Solarcentury has poached Chris Banks from RES to lead its subsidy-free solar development team in the UK.

Finlay Colville, head of market research at Solar Media, delves into the UK large-scale solar pipeline to reveal what really could be built over the next 12 months.

Small-scale solar PV installations have maintained their priority dispatch rights in Europe after a vote by European Union Member States last week.

Wood Mackenzie has predicted that the UK will join Europe’s “vanguard of subsidy-free utility-scale solar PV” in 2019 as project costs continue to fall.

Solar is to help renewables become the “dominant force” of Great Britain’s energy mix by as early as next year, a new report has found.