A report has been published today by the National Audit Office on the Levy Control Framework (LCF), which controls expenditure on low carbon power generation. The...
The Solar Trade Association has released a new report [1] which quantifies the cost of integrating solar into the UK power market, for the first time, for today and...
Companies can see how much their properties are valued at on the VOA website[1] as the draft rateable values for 2017 for properties that pay business rates are published...
The Solar Trade Association (STA) has released a paper detailing their position on the interaction between solar and energy storage, entitled “Solar + Storage Opportunities.” The paper...
Over the course of last year the electricity generated from solar installations across the UK almost doubled, figures from the Department of Energy and Climate Change...
The government has unveiled plans to increase support for renewable energy from £95 million to £300 million but the industry fears the system would harm solar development and...
Solar farms across England and Wales have opened for visits from local residents, schools, businesses and community groups on Friday, in an effort to educate the...
The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has confirmed plans to stop subsidies through the renewables obligation (RO) scheme for large-scale solar farms. The plans...
The government is set to launch a review of the solar industry’s subsidies, which may favour industrial rooftop installations over large-scale solar farms. The sector is...
The BRE National Solar Centre and conservation groups have announced new guidelines to make solar farms the ideal habitats and corridors for wildlife – including species...
Almost half a million UK homes are now fitted with a solar panel array, according to new figures. The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC)...
The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has confirmed that David Cameron’s review into green levies will alter investor incentives for renewable energy. Increasing energy...
An agreement has been reached over the importing of low-cost solar panels from China to the EU, two months after the European commission imposed a temporary...
Figures released by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) show that the UK has witnessed a striking decrease in the number of domestic solar...
The feed-in tariff (FiT) for domestic solar installations comes down to 16p per kilowatt (kW) hour today, but this shouldn’t put people off investing in the...