Storage has long been billed as the Holy Grail for solar but is the industry is in danger of talking itself into a problem that doesn’t exist? Peter Bennett explores whether solar needs storage to become a mainstream player in the UK.
During the second week of August the UK solar market’s cumulative capacity hit 5GW. In an exclusive blog for Solar Power Portal, Finlay Colville explains how, where and why this milestone was reached.
The solar industry is no stranger to fast-tracked consultations and declining subsidy support. However, Seb Berry argues that the latest proposals leave solar unfairly handicapped.
With the size and date of the next cut to the UK’s feed-in tariff (FiT) now confirmed by Ofgem – a minimum of 3.5% on 31 December 2014 – solar installers may be expecting a repeat of the ‘feast and famine’ effect felt by many following previous reductions.
The UK solar sector still has eight months left to develop 1.4ROC solar farms. Finlay Colville explores the short term impact of the government’s change in solar farm support
The BRE Wind Digest DG 489 document for wind loading on solar panels has received a huge update. Stuart Elmes gives you your essential guide to all the latest changes.
Solar farm deployment has traditionally been focused to the south west of England but has slowly begun to spread across the whole of the UK. Finlay Colville analyses where and why developers are heading north.
Jerry Hamilton argues that the government’s increased focus on PV installs with onsite consumption will require a policy review to help remove barriers
In the second part of this exclusive two part blog for Solar Power Portal, NPD Solarbuzz team leader Finlay Colville discusses the key factors influencing the different scenarios for UK solar PV deployment over the next five years.
In a monumental re-shuffle to seemingly oust the “stale, pale and male” shackles of Cameron’s cabinet, the solar industry has some new parliamentary voices, but will the newbies lift the scandal of the notorious “green crap”?
