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German PV manufacturer Solarwatt has named its first two partners that will help formulate its expansion into the UK and Irish domestic markets.

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.

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?

Solar Power Portal talks to Trina Solar’s Richard Rushin about the hurdles the UK’s commercial rooftop market must overcome, and the opportunity out there for installers.

Solar Media, the publishers of Solar Power Portal and Inside Clean Energy, have collaborated with module manufacturer Trina Solar to launch a comprehensive guide to the burgeoning UK commercial rooftop market.

The major broadcasting firm has embraced solar after a 463.4 kWp system was completed in West London earlier this year.

A university in London has launched what it claims to be the first community-funded solar project on a higher education establishment in the UK.

Chris Jardine, technical director at Joju Solar, discusses how renewables installers can best diversify in the current climate and notes some particular pitfalls to avoid.

Solarsense has revealed details of the completion of a series of commercial rooftop solar installations earlier this year for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) at a number of its nature reserves.

Virgin Media reduced its carbon emissions year-on-year by more than 6% in 2015, and the company said it owes some of this reduction to a trial run of on-site generation as well as various energy efficiency projects.