Milan Topalov

Government has revealed that the upcoming Energy Bill will not include a decarbonisation target for 2030. Instead a decision on whether to legislate for a 2030 decarbonisation target will be taken after the next election in 2016.

Labour leader Ed Miliband has launched a scathing attack on the government’s handling of energy policy, revealing new figures that suggest investment in UK renewable energy has fallen by half since 2009.

Over 450 homes throughout the Midlands and the South East are now powered by the sun after the completion of Street Energy’s 1.2MW rent-a-roof scheme.

In light of the new Solar PV guide, Martin takes a look at the various methods installers can record a horizon or shade line onto a sun-path diagram.

Somerset-based renewable installer, Solarsense, has won the 2012 South West Green Energy Installer of the Year Award. The award recognises the company’s continued commercial success as well as level of community engagement following various local initiatives that it ran over the year.

The Green Electrician’s distribution division, GreenKit, has launched a new range of pre-designed solar PV kits.

Set up in 2010, Solar Solutions has gone from strength-to-strength despite the recent troubles facing the solar industry. Solar Power Portal caught up with the company’s Managing Director, David McCann to find out what’s been driving the success.

A “dash for gas” would lock the UK into a high-carbon energy system that would leave it vulnerable to rising gas prices, an influential group of MPs has warned.

Renewable Energy Corporation (REC) has donated more than 100 of its REC Peak Energy Series panels for two off-grid rooftop installations in Tanzania.

Kidderminster-based solar energy installer Eco2Solar has been nominated as a finalist in three separate categories of the 2013 Midlands Business Awards.