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Your Group has said that it is “bitterly disappointed” after its Your Power division was forced to enter administration after racking up significant trade debts.

Anti-minimum import price sentiment has continued to swell this week as more than 400 companies called on the European Commission to put an end to trade duties on solar modules and cells.

The UK has tumbled outside yet another independent body’s energy ranking, this time the World Energy Council’s energy trilemma index top 10.

An early day motion calling on the government to halt proposed changes to business rates attached to rooftop solar installations has received significant, cross-party support.

Havering London Borough Council has submitted plans to build its own solar farms in the latest example of wider adoption of solar developments by local authorities and the first to take up the technology on a large scale in London.

Angelique Bacia, business development manager at Activia Solar, discusses how UK solar developers will need back-up plans as the last ROC deadline approaches.

Despite regulatory ambiguities, the general consensus from industry stakeholders at this year’s Solar Energy UK | Clean Energy Live exhibition is that Africa’s solar sector is ripe for UK entrants, posing a significant opportunity that should not be missed.

Directors at Bluefield Solar Income Fund (BSIF) have provisionally approved a UK solar asset portfolio totalling 68MW as the asset management group prepares for one last rush under the Renewable Obligation scheme.

The fourth quarter of Ofgem’s revised feed-in tariff regime has kicked off with significant unutilised capacity carried over and standard degressions being applied across more common deployment bands.

The minister for energy and intellectual property delivered one of her first speeches to industry at Solar Energy UK | Clean Energy Live 2016 on Wednesday 5 October after being appointed just a few months ago.