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Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has labelled cuts to the small-scale feed-in tariff “nonsensical” during a speech launching a pledge to invest £300 million in low-carbon technology.

Lightsource has appointed Big Four consultancy Deloitte and real estate giant Cushman & Wakefield to help support the developer’s private wire solar push.

John Whiten, chief operations officer at cutting-edge drone developers Cleandrone, discusses what solar-focused drones could be capable of in the future and what regulatory obstacles will have to be surpassed for them to do so.

Solar Power Portal runs through those nominated for this year’s financial innovation award.

The UK government should adopt an entirely new home improvement scheme which would see income from renewable energy subsidies used to pay back the cost of installation, according to a report from Conservative think tank Bright Blue.

Energy union GMB has slammed an interview given by new National Grid executive director Nicola Shaw in which she lauded the potential of a smart energy revolution in the UK as “fanciful nonsense”.

UK supermarket giant Sainsbury’s has said that commercial rooftop solar is a crucial element to its sustainability plans and revealed that it is currently experimenting with battery storage technologies.

In-house market research conducted by Solar Media Ltd can now reveal exclusively that the UK added 223MW of new solar PV during the second quarter of 2016.

Solar Power Portal runs through the nominations for this year’s Community Benefit Project award.

Last week the Institute of Directors revealed that business leaders have taken a dim view of government energy policy, but widely backed its success in the promotion of renewables. With hydropower and solar among the favourites of big businesses, is the tide turning for renewables in the eyes of corporates?