Commenting on recent analysis from a Government-linked Chinese think-tank that solar could match the price of coal by 2015, Howard Johns, Chairman of the Solar Trade Association said
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Finally, UK’s first community-owned solar power station!
A neighbourhood community in Lewes has managed to raise over £300,000 to pay for the construction of PV solar panels on the roof of a local brewery, which will generate 92,000 kilowatt hours of green electricity each year and save more than 40 tonnes of CO2 annually. Ouse Valley Energy Services Company Limited or Ovesco [...]
Coalition Government Derail 50kW Solar – as E&Y Report Launched Today Confirms its Potential
The UK Solar PV Industry Outlook Report on 50kW to 5 MW market, launched today, by independent consultants, Ernst & Young, reveals that non-domestic solar could thrive in the UK without subsidy from 2017 and that solar power is providing the opportunity for new non-traditional players to enter the UK energy market, increasing competition with [...]
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Ministers plan an abrupt change of policy to rescue solar power jobs
Tom McGhie at dailymail.co.uk posted this article on 11th June 2011. To read the full version, please click here. Ministers plan an abrupt change of policy in an effort to rescue tens of thousands of jobs and billions of pounds of investment promised by Britain’s solar energy industry, which are threatened by Treasury cuts. On [...]
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Feed-in tariffs cuts cast solar future in a new light
Duncan Clark at guardian.co.uk posted this article on 10th June 2011. To read the full version, please click here. As expected, the government on Thursday announced cuts to the subsidies given to large-scale solar photovoltaic installations. The cuts were introduced in a bid to ensure that the money assigned to the feed-in tariffs (Fits) programme [...]
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Today’s Coalition Government’s announcement effectively kills solar industry above 50kW in the UK
The Coalition Government changes to FITs announced today, due to come into effect in August, effectively kill the UK solar industry for all installations over 50kW in size. Investments in major UK manufacturing opportunities, like Kingspan’s insulate and generate solar roofing, are now in jeopardy, as investors move away from UK. Cost-effective and accessible public schemes, in leisure centres, [...]
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IEA say solar may produce most of world’s power by 2060. STA say UK risks missing out.
Commenting on a recent statement from the IEA’s renewable energy division that photovoltaic and solar-thermal plants may meet most of the world’s demand for electricity by 2060, Howard Johns, Chairman of the Solar Trade Association said