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Nominations for 2015’s Solar Power Portal Awards are currently open. Returning for its third year, the Solar Power Portal Awards will take place on 13 October, the first evening of the sixth Solar Energy UK exhibition in Birmingham.

A petition has been launched urging UK environment secretary Elizabeth Truss to consider copying new French regulation regarding solar rooftops.

Ethical investment platform Abundance has launched a new solar investment opportunity which aims to install 500 rooftop solar installations under the Green Deal, taking its available renewable energy investment portfolio to £4 million.

British energy storage start-up Powervault is aiming to become the leading energy storage provider in the UK after raising £700,000 through crowd-funding platform Crowdcube.

Abakus solar AG has added the 2.8MW Trenouth solar park in Cornwall to its operation and maintenance (O&M) service portfolio in the UK.

St Nicholas’ Chapel in King’s Lynn has received a rooftop solar installation as part of a £2.7 million regeneration programme.

Armstrong Energy’s 22MW Chalgrove Solar Farm in Oxfordshire has been hit by a fire in an inverter unit.

Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Amber Rudd has said the Conservative government “does not want large-scale solar” as MPs clashed over the recent decision to bring a premature end to onshore wind subsidies.

With just five months until Prime Minister David Cameron and Secretary of State Amber Rudd head the British mission to Paris for the COP 21 summit, Dale Vince says the renewables industry is not being outspoken enough.

The Scottish government has launched a consultation which proposes to remove planning permission requirements for all commercial solar installs.