Commercial & Residential Solar

The head of community energy at the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) said yesterday that the government wants to see an “upsurge” in community generated energy projects, while acknowledging serious barriers exist in policy.

Freetricity will install another 10,000 residential PV systems in England and Wales following a deal with clean energy investor and fund manager Zouk Capital.

Rochdale Borough Council has started construction on Greater Manchester’s first publicly owned ‘solar farm’ in an attempt to become Britain’s greenest local authority.

The UK’s first grid connected solar system has been tested on its 20th anniversary, to find it still has a 95% generation rate from its initial installation 20 years ago.

Solar Power Portal is delighted to announce the shortlist for the 2014 Solar Power Portal Awards…

Lincoln-based energy company, Freewatt, has said that it has £63 million of investment riding on the outcome of Thursday’s Scottish Independence vote.

SunEdison and its yield co, TerraForm, have completed the connection of two solar power plants in the UK, totalling 50MW.

UK-based thin-film start-up, Oxford Photovoltaics said it would commercialise a perovskite based tandem thin-film for conventional c-Si solar cells ahead of plans to commercialise its BIPV product offering set for 2017.

Bluefield Solar Income Fund has acquired a portfolio of 12 operational solar assets.

NextEnergy Solar Fund has announced the acquisition of a 14.5MW solar farm in Wiltshire.