Commercial & Residential Solar

Solar Power Portal caught up with Aleski Tukiainen to find out more about the incredible technology used in the racer.

Lightsource Renewable Energy is looking at installing two solar farms in Northern Ireland that will share a grid connection.

Primrose Solar has connected its 48MW Southwick Estate solar farm to the national grid, claiming it to be the UK’s “largest and greenest” solar farm in operation.

American microinverter manufacturer, Enphase is “hoping to do for storage what it did for inverters” by moving to a modular architecture. Peter Bennett caught up with Thomas Lee, senior product manager for Enphase at Ecobuild to learn more about the company’s new energy storage system.

Yorkshire Water is plotting to construct ground-mounted solar arrays at two of its sewage and water treatment plants to help meet its energy demands.

UK shipping firm MMD Shipping Services has partnered with EvoEnergy to install a 1MW rooftop array at its import facility in Portsmouth.

The UK has spearheaded a return to growth for the utility-scale solar sector in Europe, according to figures released by Wiki-Solar.org.

UK-based thin film start up, Oxford Photovoltaics has secured at least a further £8 million in VC funding to further plans to commercialise its blend of perovskite materials under a licensing model.

Dr Marek Kubik, strategic advisor, AES Corporation discusses the role for energy storage technology and solar to work together and how the success of existing pilot schemes could surprise people.

A former open cast mining operation in Derbyshire has won planning permission to develop a 7.1MW solar farm on the site.