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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.

The UK can successfully tackle the challenges of the energy trilemma without building Hinkley Point C according to a new report from the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) out today.

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.

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.

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.

The European investment market for power generation assets is likely to be severely hit by the continuing impacts of the UK’s Brexit vote, ‘Big Four’ consultancy EY has warned.

With so much spare capacity going unused under the residential feed-in tariff, Liam Stoker questions whether it’s time BEIS used it to stimulate commercial deployment.

Greater support of low carbon investment is needed from government to “plug the gap” left by its earlier climate and energy reset according to a new report penned by a former HM Treasury economist.

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.

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.