Liam Stoker

Today the UK celebrates Solar Independence Day. Liam Stoker looks at how the market is bouncing back from subsidy cuts.

Swedish state-owned power company Vattenfall has established a new business unit dedicated to solar-plus-storage.

The UK’s suite of renewables set a new generation record in the first quarter of the year, official statistics from the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy show.

The UK’s continued membership of the internal energy market (IEM) is crucial to further and more efficient integration of renewable energy throughout Europe, a trade body has warned.

Solar is set to play a prominent role in future energy systems, according to the chief executive of French power company Engie.

UK solar and wind asset owner Greencoat Renewables is eying an IPO to raise as much as €250 million (US$280 million) to pursue additional wind and solar projects across Europe.

Today’s surprise general election result of a hung parliament has led to increasing concern within the renewables industry that the government’s eagerly anticipated Clean Growth Plan (CGP) could be delayed once more.

Proposals from the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) to remove priority dispatch for existing renewables generators across Europe are irresponsible and potentially damaging to investor confidence, the head of Europe’s solar trade association has said.

E.ON has formed a partnership with online giant Google to help it conquer the European solar market.

Major utility firm E.on has announced its entrance to the UK’s solar and storage market with a new consumer-focused offering.