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As electrical contractors and installers flock to the burgeoning storage market, there are warnings over mis-selling, training and calls for clarity over required filings. Liam Stoker reports.

Six months on from the introduction of new feed-in tariff rates for UK solar, the Solar Trade Association’s chief executive Paul Barwell sets out its key asks for the new Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy when it comes to solar policy.

The UK’s energy infrastructure will need investment totalling almost £215 billion by 2030, nearly all of which will need to be earmarked for “disruptive” generation technologies such as renewables.

Finlay Colville, head of market research at Solar Media, reveals who the 20 most prolific solar project developers in the UK market have been.

Independent consultant and public sector specialist Stephen Cirell discusses what Forest heath’s purchase of Toggan Solar Farm could mean for public sector solar.

Solar Power Portal runs through the nominations for this year’s Commercial Renewable Heat Project award.

French renewables firm Voltalia has completed its acquisition of Martifer Solar in a move which the two companies said had resulted in the “birth of a global renewables champion”.

A Suffolk local authority has become the owner of one of the largest council-owned solar farms in the country after using capital reserves to purchase the Toggam Farm solar farm, in Lakenheath.

Solar Power Portal runs through this week’s people news from within UK solar, including a senior appointment at Evolt and vacancies at Source CHP

The results of the hugely over-subscribed enhanced frequency response tender are due to be published next Friday, however the UK’s battery storage market faces a raft of regulatory hurdles before it can truly take off.