Opinions

Small-scale PV storage has not yet taken off in the UK. However, the necessary technical and commercial drivers could kick in soon and rapidly change this situation, and when they do, we need to be ready, says Martin Cotterell

Can microinverters help attract residential investors to solar power?

Despite all the benefits energy storage provides to the grid and generators and its integral part in the future of solar PV in the UK, it is not yet a financially viable investment for any distinct part of the value chain.

Earlier this month, the £130 million Bluefield Solar Income Fund started trading on the London Stock Exchange.

The Taxpayers Alliance’s attempt to swindle the public out of clean energy with a new campaign: ‘The Energy Swindle’.

A quick drive around a new-build industrial estate or office complex will demonstrate the impact solar panels are having in the UK.

Watching the large-scale solar parliament debate yesterday, I was very saddened that solar developers were accused of falsifying information in advertising specifically with regards to the growth of grass underneath and around the panels

The only British entry to the World Solar Challenge reveals their revolution in solar care design and engineering.

Depending on who you ask, energy minister Greg Barker’s ambition of 20GW by 2020 is either pie-in-the-sky rhetoric or a critical underestimation of what solar can achieve in the UK.

This week it emerged that no UK homes have yet completed a Green Deal plan since the government’s flagship policy was launched at the start of the year. Charlotte Webster argues that the money spent on publicising the scheme should instead have been spent on communicating the merits of solar power, a positive proposition that suffers from an image problem.