The UK renewable energy industry is set to encounter a new wave of subsidy cuts affecting large-scale and rooftop solar, as well as wind. The Department of Energy and Climate Change announced Wednesday consultations on ending the effective Renewables Obligation support for solar farms, as well as plans to possibly … [continued]
Following the launch of Britain’s feed-in tariff program in 2010, the country has pushed ahead of the United States in the installation of small wind turbine capacity in 2011, with the same expected for 2012. This is an astounding achievement considering that the US has been promoting small wind … [continued]
Editor’s note: this looks like a great UK solar financing option and I’m happy to give Jarrah the platform to write about it here — check it out: Recent developments in the United Kingdom have detrimentally affected one of the most popular methods of domestic solar PV finance. The … [continued]
Solar power subsidies are being cut in half in the UK. The change, which is supposed to solar panel installations completed after December 12, has outraged consumers and solar energy advocates. It also makes government policies in the UK a little less than trustworthy. At least one organization is now … [continued]
Spain’s Isolux Corsan completed construction of three, five-megawatt (MW) solar photovoltaic (PV) power plants in Cornwall — the largest in the UK — in just ten weeks, ahead of schedule and in-budget. That brings to more than 300MW the total electricity generation capacity of the solar PV power plants it has built worldwide in the past three years
This is a special guest post by Ben Saffer of Evo Energy. Several good points that I think could be reiterated every day! Enjoy, and go solar.
