The UK’s new Secretary of State for energy and climate change, Amber Rudd, has spoke of her desire to increase the deployment of solar PV under her watch.
Baroness Verma has left her role as Under Secretary of State at the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to take up the same position at the Department for International Development (DFID).
Navitron, supplier and installer of renewable technology, has signed up as an installation partner for US renewable energy developer and manufacturer, SunEdison in the UK.
Renewable energy provider Good Energy has confirmed it has taken a further drawdown from its debt facility in order to secure long-term funding for its Carloggas solar farm.
The generation of renewable electricity in the UK has increased by a fifth spurred on by dramatic increases in solar PV capacity, according to figures published in the Renewable Energy Association’s annual REview.
Foresight Solar has revealed it contracted Trina Solar to supply the modules for the 2.2MW extension to its 32.2MW Wymeswold Solar Farm in Leicestershire.
Thin-film producer Solar Frontier has revealed that it will partner with German developer, New Energy for the World (NEW) to develop and sell 100MW of solar farms in the UK.
The Thorne Colliery Solar Farm proposed by solar developer RES has received planning permission by Doncaster Council, securing a £25,000 pledge for a local community centre.
