PV

Bignell Park Farm, a 300-acre estate in Chesterton, Oxfordshire is now benefitting from several solar PV systems, installed on buildings and land throughout the estate.

Mace Midlands has partnered with IBC Solar to design and install a unique East West-facing solar array on the company’s headquarters in Burton-on-Trent.

MoneySupermarket has had a 48.88kWp solar array fitted to its headquarters in Flintshire. The £90,000 installation was installed free-of-charge by iGen Energy Ltd, as part of a power purchase agreement.

Since yesterday’s feed-in tariff bomb was dropped in the House of Commons by the now-infamous Minister of State Greg Barker, there has been a lot of squabbling in the UK solar industry. A large majority were pleased with the results of the consultation, while others continued to berate Government with their now worn torrent of abuse.

Greenbuy Energy has taken advantage of a change in law last April that rules that commercial property owners, including farmers, can now have solar panels installed on their land without the need for planning permission.

It’s easy to get swept up in the hysteria surrounding the Department of Energy and Climate Change’s handling of solar PV feed-in tariff rates. What seemed like a drastic cut was rushed through undoubtedly too quick and, as a result, industry was left reeling. However, we must remember that industry also managed to mobilise in spectacular fashion to install an incredible 380MW in the six-weeks running up to December 12.

God bless Conservative MP Tim Yeo for speaking truth to power, in a month when leaders of the UK renewables industry showed signs of weakening in that resolve.

A Glasgow-based coffee company is running on more than caffeine after Absolute Solar and Wind installed a 10kW solar system.

The Met Office has awarded the contract to design and install a 250kWp solar PV array at its Exeter-based HQ to local installer, Sun Gift solar.

The Abrahams family have been harnessing the power of the sun for three generations to help them grow grain, rape and bean in the countryside of Saffron Walden.