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Is an MCS-styled regulatory framework required to protect the nascent domestic battery storage market in the UK?

A collection of images from last night’s Solar Power Portal Awards.

The London Fire Brigade is testing a new “light blocking” tool for combating fires involving rooftop solar PV panels.

The Solar Trade Association (STA) is on the hunt for a new chief executive after announcing that Paul Barwell will step down after five years in the job.

The Microgeneration Certification Scheme has postponed controversial increases to its installation fees just hours before they were due to come into effect.

Housebuilders are increasingly looking to in-roof solar installations in their new build homes according to North West-based installer Solarcrown Commercial, which has won contracts for over 400 new build homes in the region.

The Solar Power Portal Awards 2017 is now less than a week away and the shortlisted entrants have all been publicised.

With just two weeks to go until the Solar Power Portal Awards, Solar Media is giving away two tickets to the gala dinner and ceremony taking place in Birmingham on Wednesday 4 October.

With less than three weeks to go until Solar & Storage Live, Solar Power Portal has spoken to Virginia Graham, chief executive Renewable Energy Assurance which administers the Renewable Energy Consumer Code, who will take to the stage alongside Martin Cotterell and Graham Kenyon to discuss their co-authored IET Code of Practice for Electrical Energy Storage Systems.

Varta Storage is poised to enter the UK and Ireland residential battery markets through a new exclusive deal with Waxman Energy, with ‎global head Gordon Clements telling SPP the UK is “the next market that will start to open up” for the technology.