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UK utility OVO Energy has launched a new advertisement campaign featuring a Donald Trump-like figure trashing a solar farm with a golf club.

UK Prime Minister Theresa May has said she wants to maintain “broad energy co-operation” with the European Union (EU) post-Brexit.

Vattenfall has announced plans to invest up to €100 million in developing solar plants over the next two years.

The economics of solar-and-storage in the UK are being proven, according to Anesco, the developer of one such project.

Greencoat Capital has won the race to acquire the highly sought-after portfolio of UK solar assets developed by Canadian Solar.

Bodies from the UK government and the United Nations are partnering on improving access to solar in Uganda, where 70% of the population has no electricity.

Two years ago the UK government’s new feed-in tariff regime came into force, starting an immensely difficult period for the solar industry. Deployment has fallen by nearly 80%, and thousands of jobs have been lost. This is the inside track of how it happened.

Shell has suggested it will become the next major oil firm to enter the new build solar market after it was reported over the weekend that the Dutch giant plans to build solar farms in Britain.

Nissan is backing its big brand presence to crack the UK solar market and expects to complete its first installation in the UK in a matter of weeks.

PV Tech caught up with Ugo Salerno, chairman and CEO of Italy-based advisory RINA, alongside the firm’s technical director for power and renewables, Simon Turner, to discuss storage retrofits in the UK, financing floating PV and upgrading hastily built European solar plants.