Commercial & Residential Solar

Watchfield’s 80-year-old village hall will be reclad, insulated and repainted following a £10,000 donation from Hadstone Energy which is developing a 10MW solar farm in the area.

The energy and climate change minister Greg Barker has opened Oxford PV’s new fabrication and test facilities at Begbroke Science Park.

Potential Induced Degradation (PID) is a topic that’s been around the PV industry for a while, but until fairly recently I had not been paying it that much attention. This changed for me at Solar Energy UK 2013 in Birmingham when a manufacturer giving a talk said they had seen evidence of PID reducing output in a particular system by 60% – yes 60%!

Solarcentury has revealed that it is working on two solar farm projects across the UK totalling 25MW of new capacity.

Sports shoe manufacturer New Balance has installed a 50kWp solar array on its factory rooftop in Flimby, Cumbria. 

One of the UK’s largest potato distributors, Branston, has installed solar across a number of its sites in a move designed to slash its utility costs and its impact on the environment.

Eight Co-op outlets across Lincolnshire will benefit from solar-generated electricity by the end of the year, as work to install arrays begins.

Solar companies Conergy and Camborne Energy have announced the sale of a planned 40MW solar farm portfolio to investor Primrose Solar.

Solarcentury has signed a contract with Hanwha Q Cells that will see the German manufacturer supply the London-based developer with 15MW of modules.

Energy efficiency measures installed under the Energy Companies Obligation (ECO) have topped 300,000, according to statistics published by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC).