Articles tagged with: Subsidies

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Diverse range of stakeholders drive UK’s fast-growing commercial solar PV rooftop sector

17 Jan 2022, 10:09 • By Finlay Colville
Diverse range of stakeholders drive UK’s fast-growing commercial solar PV rooftop sector

One of the most encouraging aspects of the UK solar industry during 2021 was the emergence of a sustainable commercial rooftop sector. Here, Finlay Colville, head of market research at SPP publisher Solar Media, discusses the types of companies that have been planning new PV builds since the start of 2019.

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Sponsored Q CELLS: Talkin‘ bout a solar evolution

2 Sep 2021, 09:18 • By Ian Clover
Q CELLS: Talkin‘ bout a solar evolution

Adaptable, affordable, and easily available, solar PV is altering the renewable energy landscape of the UK one panel at a time – and solar is still capable of doing so much more to galvanise the fight against climate change, writes Q CELLS’ Ian Clover.

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Q&A: Bluefield’s James Armstrong on the ‘next wave of growth’ for UK solar

22 Jan 2021, 16:09 • By Alice Grundy
Q&A: Bluefield’s James Armstrong on the ‘next wave of growth’ for UK solar

Solar Power Portal caught up with James Armstrong, managing partner of Bluefield Partners, to discuss how the recent acquisition of a 70MWp asset reflects Bluefield's solar strategy, whether subsidy-free developments are still on the table and how the solar sector may see significant growth in 2022/23.

High RESS strike prices down to connection costs and PPA length

High RESS strike prices down to connection costs and PPA length

13 Aug 2020, 08:00

High grid connection costs resulted in a solar strike price in Ireland’s first Renewable Electricity Support Scheme (RESS) auction “significantly higher than anywhere else in Europe” according to the Irish Solar Energy Association (ISEA).