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UK energy minister Michael Fallon has said that the coalition government is scrutinising all green levies, undermining the Department of Energy and Climate Change’s recent reassurance that renewable support is not being reviewed.

The Renewable Energy Association (REA) has warned that mixed political messages run the risk of undermining new jobs and investment in the UK’s renewable sector.

PassivSystems has agreed a contract with Freetricity to provide monitoring for the company’s latest £50 million ‘free solar’ campaign.

Doncaster Rovers has become the first football league club to install solar panels on its stadium, following the completion of a 50kWp solar array at the Keepmoat Stadium.

A proposal to add an amendment to the Energy Bill that would force the government to set out a decarbonisation strategy next year has been defeated.

Cheshire-based renewables company TGE Group has launched a new solar monitoring package.

Solar developer Lark Energy has partnered with Armstrong Energy to develop and construct three solar farm projects totalling 30MW across Lincolnshire and Rutland.

In an interview with the Guardian on Friday, secretary for energy and climate change and liberal democrat MP, Ed Davey vowed to defend Green Levies.

Solar in the UK could deliver the same amount of electricity production as the proposed Hinkley Point C nuclear power station within two years, according to the country’s largest PV generator.

Wiltshire-based renewable energy company Good Energy has submitted a planning application for a 49.9MW solar farm to be built on a former RAF site in Norfolk.