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Sponsored Why are UK businesses turning to rooftop solar generation?
Martyn Johnson, sales manager UK and Ireland at Schweizer’s solar energy systems division, discusses what’s driving businesses up and down the UK to go solar.
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Trump cannot stop the clean energy revolution
Writing for Solar Power Portal, Terry Macalister, former energy editor at The Guardian, looks at the fallout from Donald Trump’s US Election victory and why he cannot stop the clean energy revolution
Sponsored Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service chooses enhanced safety solution for its 700kW PV Sites
With continuously growing operation costs, and public pressure to reduce expenditures, Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service decided to install PV systems on top of 12 fire stations and three headquarter buildings across Hampshire.
Bentley plans to install 3MW solar carport at Cheshire manufacturing site
Bentley Motors is planning to construct the UK’s largest solar carport – a significant 2.938MW in size – on an employee car park adjacent to its manufacturing facility in Crewe.
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Photon completes 95kWp rooftop install for Bournemouth University
Bournemouth University has installed a 95kWp solar system atop its new £22 million academic ‘Fusion Building’, which will provide it with more than 100,000kWh of electricity each year.
SSE Arena Belfast to go solar with large commercial rooftop
The Odyssey Group, owners of the SSE Arena Belfast, has proposed installing a 420kWp commercial rooftop system atop the entertainment centre’s buildings.
Motion calling for end to solar business rate hikes receives cross-party support
An early day motion calling on the government to halt proposed changes to business rates attached to rooftop solar installations has received significant, cross-party support.
Solar Power Portal and Clean Energy Awards: Our winners in full
All of the winners from last night's Solar Power Portal and Clean Energy Awards 2016
SEUK|CEL 2016 day three - live blog
All the latest coverage from the third and final day of this year's Solar Energy UK | Clean Energy Live exhibition at the NEC Birmingham.
SEUK|CEL 2016 day two - live blog
All the latest coverage from the second day of this year's Solar Energy UK | Clean Energy Live exhibition at the NEC Birmingham.
STA secures concession on business rates but self-consumers remain at risk
Solar installations used by companies to export power to the grid are to be spared from rising costs after the Solar Trade Association (STA) successfully signed a provisional agreement meaning these systems will in fact see a decrease in business rates.
Welsh government report examines raising rooftop solar permitted development rights
A report published by the Welsh government last week has raised the possibility of extending permitted development rights (PDR) for solar PV and thermal beyond current limits.
Latest Lightsource PPA sees developer partner with Ming Foods
Lightsource has begun supplying solar energy to Ming Foods through a 25 year power purchase agreement which stands to save the Chinese pastry specialist more than £20,000 from its annual energy costs.
ONE WEEK until Solar Energy UK | Clean Energy Live 2016
Preparations are now gathering pace as the UK’s solar and clean energy industries prepare to meet at this year’s Solar Energy UK | Clean Energy Live exhibition, held at the NEC in Birmingham.
BEIS to ‘look very closely’ at business rates valuation issue
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has acknowledged the looming issue of a change in rateable values attached to commercial rooftop solar installs and pledged to “look very closely” at its potential impacts.
Solar Power Portal Awards shortlist spotlight – Commercial PV Project
Solar Power Portal runs through those nominated for this year’s commercial PV project award.
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Academy to save millions on electricity from solar PPA
One of the UK's largest solar installations to be completed at a school is saving Wellacre Academy in Flixton, Greater Manchestrer thousands off its electricity bills thanks to a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Eden Sustainable.
Solar Power Portal Awards shortlist spotlight – Commercial Energy Management
Solar Power Portal runs through those nominated for this year’s commercial energy management award.
Treasury to propose transitional relief for rising solar business rates
The Treasury is to launch a consultation setting out proposals for transitional relief measures for companies affected by upcoming changes to business tax rates on solar installations, Solar Power Portal has learned.
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Business rates issue presents new HM Treasury team opportunity to back UK solar
Labour launches campaign against ‘solar tax hike’
Labour has stepped up its pressure on the government over proposed increases in business rates taxation on solar installations and launched a campaign against the plans.
WElink, BSR lay claim to UK’s largest private wire solar park
A joint venture comprising WElink Energy and British Solar Renewables has received full accreditation for what is claimed to be the UK’s largest solar farm with a private wire connection.
Lightsource appoints Deloitte and Cushman & Wakefield for commercial PPA programme
Lightsource has appointed Big Four consultancy Deloitte and real estate giant Cushman & Wakefield to help support the developer’s private wire solar push.
Solar central to Sainsbury’s sustainability plan as supermarket trials battery storage
UK supermarket giant Sainsbury’s has said that commercial rooftop solar is a crucial element to its sustainability plans and revealed that it is currently experimenting with battery storage technologies.
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Is the tide turning for renewables among big corporates?
Q&A: Trina Solar’s Richard Rushin on the challenges facing the UK’s commercial rooftop market
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 and Trina Solar launch UK commercial rooftop guide
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.
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STA publishes FiT reform proposals for rooftop solar
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.
Photon Energy completes commercial rooftop install for BSkyB
The major broadcasting firm has embraced solar after a 463.4 kWp system was completed in West London earlier this year.
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Is it time already for BEIS to reallocate spare FiT capacity?
