Despite the UK becoming Europe’s largest ground-mount solar market in 2015, just 16 developers have completed more than 100MW of UK projects, according to statistics to be revealed in Solar Intelligence’s upcoming UK Large-Scale Ground-Mount Solar UK report.
Contracts for Differences will “not be the focus” of solar investors and developers in the year ahead according to a survey conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Solar Trade Association which also raised concerns over spiralling grid connection costs.
Solar developer SPI has sold its entire stake in the Grange Farm solar project to an investment fund managed by the infrastructure group at investment managers Blackrock.
European solar PV trade group SolarPower Europe, formerly EPIA, said cumulative global PV demand could reach 540GW in 2020, during the opening presentations at the 2015 Intersolar Europe conference.
Former energy minister, Greg Barker has urged the solar industry to focus on achievable lobbying wins which operate within the government’s tight financial constraints.
The UK could be benefitting from rooftop solar-generated electricity at parity with retail prices and solar farm-generated electricity at parity with new gas CCGT station prices by the end of the decade, according to the Solar Trade Association’s Solar Independence Plan for Britain.
