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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 Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has upgraded its Q1 and Q2 2016 deployment stats, but warned of lower-than-average recorded sun hours over the last three months.

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.

Industry leader DuPont Photovoltaic Solutions and Italian EPC firm Enerpoint share best practices for installing rooftop PV systems.

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.

Late last week the EU minimum import price undertaking was dealt a fresh blow as three more companies withdrew, with critics suggesting the latest development was further evidence the agreement lies in tatters.

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”.