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Manufacturers and distributors are offering many different forms of training in energy storage installation for residential and small commercial level all over the country. Just taking a quick look at what’s available, names as diverse and well known as inverter makers SMA and Solax, domestic storage manufacturer and energy management specialist Wattstor, distributors like Krannich, Waxman and Wind & Sun have all been offering or will offer dedicated training events in battery storage installation this year.

The UK looks set for the arrival of energy storage in a big way this year. While high profile entrants such as Tesla are generating headlines, several energy storage systems have been deployed already on a commercial basis using a novel storage technology – the saltwater battery.

As the Hinkley Point C project suffers another bad week, David Pratt takes a look at the latest stumbling blocks to have hit the nuclear project and what solar can do to grow in the time it may take to deliver the project.

Energy secretary Amber Rudd has once again refused to divulge details of the government’s secretive inter-ministerial Clean Growth group, despite repeated requests from opposition ministers. Liam Stoker asks why.

The feed-in tariff cuts announced in December forced many firms across the country into a race against time to complete installations ahead of the 14 January deadline. David Pratt finds out how housing provider Gentoo managed to complete more than 700 installations in time for the cut-off.

Late on Friday afternoon, the Department of Energy and Climate Change released a document detailing how the government has done to keep consumers bills down. Liam Stoker finds five ways the government has done precisely the opposite.

Finlay Colville, head of market intelligence at Solar Media, analyses what recent policy announcements mean for the future of the UK’s ground-mount market and asks just how could be install in the year commencing 1 April 2016

Both UK prime minister David Cameron and US president Barack Obama discussed their countries’ climate records yesterday but, as Liam Stoker writes, only one leader emerged as having any interest in leaving a green legacy.

Finlay Colville, head of market intelligence at Solar Intelligence, discusses the threat to ground-mount solar targeting RO grace period following last month’s consultation response.

Europe’s solar sector has been handed a somewhat unwanted Christmas present in the form of a fresh set of duties on solar imports from Asia. Ben Willis reports.