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Nottingham City Council has met its climate change targets four years ahead of schedule following a number of energy saving initiatives and significant investments in renewables across the city.

Earlier this week Lightsource announced that it had connected the UK’s first CfD solar park, the Charity Farm project in Shropshire, but it’s a bittersweet moment for the industry as Charity Farm could well be the only solar CfD project to ever be connected. Is now the time to bring solar in from the cold?

The University of the West of England (UWE) has announced plans to increase the capacity of its roof-mounted solar array to 450kWp, plans which it says would make it the largest rooftop array in the UK’s University market.

British Solar Renewables (BSR) is aiming to significantly ramp up its UK operations and maintenance business as it repositions itself to include a “significant service business”.

The Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has estimated that just 88MW of solar was installed in Q2 2016, less than half than was deployed in Q2 2015.

Solar Power Portal runs through this week’s people news from within UK solar, including news from the PwC employment survey and opportunities at the STA and Quintas.

The cost of solar technology continues to fall across the world, yet figures released by DECC this summer showed a surprise increase in the average cost of solar installs, particularly within the domestic band. Liam Stoker investigates the causes and implications of the increase.

Bristol Sport is set to benefit from significant savings on its energy bills after completing a deal with Bristol City Council to purchase energy generated from new solar panels installed on the West stand of the Ashton Gate Stadium.

Often, with potential new solar markets, there can be a lot of hype and uncertainty regarding precisely how much deployment to expect and the timelines for this new capacity to come online. Lauren Cook, analyst for Solar Intelligence, discusses the potential for solar in Ireland in the years to 2020 and beyond.

Finlay Colville, head of market research at Solar Media, reveals how UK solar is preparing for the final deployment deadline under the ROC framework.