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PS Renewables is embarking on a considerable employment drive as it seeks to employ greater numbers to reflect the company’s growing O&M business. Commercial director Matt Hazell explains.

Last week’s Business & Energy Summit in London presented a rare opportunity to gather global business leaders and national government representatives in one place to discuss climate change post-COP21. Solar Power Portal attended both days of the event and brings you the main talking points from across the summit.

The Irish government is facing fresh calls for clarity over a delayed solar energy subsidy scheme from the Irish Farmer’s Association (IFA), which claims thousands of acres of land are under contracts from developers.

UK solar has continued to break records after generation reached a new peak of delivering almost a quarter of electricity demand.

Lightsource is to invest £25 million in the deployment of solar PV across thousands of residential properties in Northern Ireland.

EvoEnergy has completed what it has called one of the highest solar installations in the UK after fitting a 26kWp system on top of the redeveloped South Bank Tower, which stands 42 storeys high.

French renewables developer Voltalia has confirmed it is in exclusive, advanced-stage negotiations to acquire Martifer Solar.

Last week Solar Power Portal revealed that the UK installed a total of one point five gigawatts of new solar between January and March this year. But with the ROC scheme closing and feed-in tariff deployment falling some 80% year-on-year, is the UK headed for a cliff edge?

Luxcara has continued to boost its UK solar assets by acquiring two additional farms from Conergy, which will add 19.6MW of capacity to the German company’s renewable energy portfolio.

Solarcentury has donated solar panels to help power the Greenpeace Field at this week’s Glastonbury Festival, supporting the charity’s low carbon theme for this year’s event.