Commercial & Residential Solar

Renewable energy project developer BayWa r.e. has revealed that it beat yesterday’s ROC deadline to connect four new solar farms in the UK.

Energy company Big60Million has launched a £20.4 million Solar Bond portfolio, offering 6% annual gross return on investment.

Solar farms larger than 5MW can no longer claim support under the renewable obligation. Solar Power Portal lists which companies managed to connect their sites in time and which will be nervously looking at the inaugural CfD auction results.

Renewable energy investment firm Low Carbon has beaten today’s Renewable Obligation Contract (ROC) deadline and commissioned five new solar parks to its portfolio.

Renewable Energy Investments (REI) has granted a 25kWp solar system to North Hertfordshire College (NHC) as part of its solar power purchase scheme.

Foresight Solar Fund has completed the acquisition of a 37MW solar farm based on a disused airfield in Kencot, Oxfordshire.

Solar project developer Anesco has brought online a 6.9MW solar farm in Pen Y Cae in South Wales, and claimed it to be Europe’s “largest optimised solar farm” in operation.

An appeal against a decision to refuse planning permission for a 15MW ground-mounted solar farm in Sudbury, Sussex has been thrown out by the Planning Inspectorate.

Solar PV provider Upsolar has collaborated with installer Photon Energy to construct a 309kWp rooftop array in Basildon, Essex.

ET Solar provided 6MW of PV modules to the rooftop installation of retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S) distribution centre in the East Midlands of England, at Castle Donington.