Ahead of this week’s feed-in tariff consultation response, Solar Intelligence’s Finlay Colville looks into the UK as a possible low-subsidy market of the future and whether or not it will reach the gigawatt level
Furniture retailer IKEA has hinted at incorporating complementary technologies such as storage and solar thermal into its UK offering when it relaunches early next year.
An Energy and Climate Change select committee panel has warned that the UK faces the same kind of solar downturn witnessed in Spain and Italy if the government follows through on prospective cuts to solar.
Custom Solar has entered into a new partnership with Derbyshire County Cricket Club that will see 550 solar panels installed at the 3aaa County Ground.
Energy secretary Amber Rudd has dismissed the government’s need to conduct a u-turn on its cuts to clean energy policy following last week’s COP21 summit agreement in Paris.
The UK arm of international solar developer Conergy has launched a solar schools initiative with the development of a 60kWp installation on a school in West Bromwich.
Up to 1,000 Darlington council homes are set to benefit from the installation of solar panels as the local authority races to complete the work before government proposals to cut subsidies are implemented.
An agreement of the world’s countries to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius by the end of the century has been lauded internationally, but many have continued to express doubts over the UK’s recent policy decisions.
Leading solar module supplier Trina Solar has withdrawn from the European Union’s price undertaking and will instead service its European customers through overseas manufacturing facilities.
Amber Rudd might have been campaigning for an international climate deal this week but her department’s lack of clear message on the MIP, VAT, FiT and everything in between has left UK solar – and the wider environmental lobby – in a state of flux.
