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October’s trade show provides a chance to start fine-tuning your core solar business and discover the new avenues to revenue in the year ahead.

Viridian Solar chief executive Stuart Elmes looks into what the UK market might resemble should DECC’s plans to cut the feed-in tariff succeed ahead of his appearance at SEUK 2015

As the UK industry prepares to descend upon the NEC in Birmingham next week for the industry’s flagship event – Solar Energy UK – recent data has just come out that hints towards the GW level of ground-mount opportunities we have been flagging up that could be available before 1 April 2016.

Just 19 MPs have signed a motion calling on the government to rethink feed-in tariff cut proposals, a paltry 6% of the opposition. Here’s how to convince your MP to throw his support behind the movement.

Liam Stoker discusses how party conference season has seen the green economy gain prime time billing, and how this needs to translate into more within the House of Commons.

Solar Intelligence’s Finlay Colville reveals just how many sub-5MW solar farm applications were rushed through on 22 July after the government’s RO proposals.

Finlay Colville, head of market intelligence at Solar Intelligence, on how the Department for Energy and Climate Change is only just catching up with solar deployment in Q1 2015.

London Assembly member for the Green Party Jenny Jones runs through the government’s current stance on renewables and concludes that in being blinded by ideology, the UK is headed for a climate change catastrophe.

The Department for Energy and Climate Change – and Amber Rudd – have been particularly busy of late, but too busy to explain this summer’s policy reset?

Energy secretary Amber Rudd and minister Andrea Leadsom were forced to defend damaging proposals to cut the FiT yesterday, but was there a softening in the message, and can the industry take heart from the sheer weight of political support the campaign has received to date?