Peter Bennett

The UK government will launch a consultation over the transfer of feed-in tariff (FiT) payments from one building to another before the end of the year, according to Amber Rudd, the minister for energy and climate change.

UK climate change minister, Amber Rudd, has said that subsidy-free solar PV should be “the goal” by 2020.

Leading inverter manufacturer, SMA Solar Technology has moved to offer PV operators and owners free access to its online monitoring platform with its latest range of Sunny Boy Inverters.

Spanish PV developer, OPDE has received planning permission for a 10.8MW solar farm in Somerset in southern England.

German inverter manufacturer, SMA has released a new ‘complete package’ designed to help UK solar farm developers meet the upcoming April 2015 deadline for subsidy change.

The UK is now the world’s fifth largest utility-scale solar market, according to figures published by Wiki-Solar.

Renewable energy project developer, Grupotec Renewables, has secured a project pipeline of 200MW in the UK.

Chinese solar manufacturer, Hanwha SolarOne has shipped 9.5MW of its modules to Ikaros Solar for two UK solar farm projects.

RWE Supply & Trading, the energy trading arm of the German utility, has acquired its first solar farm project in the UK, a 37MW development on a disused airfield in Oxfordshire, England.

Proposals for what would have become the largest PV project in England have been refused planning permission despite being recommended for approval by planning officers.