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Lightsource is to invest £25 million in the deployment of solar PV across thousands of residential properties in Northern Ireland.

EvoEnergy has completed what it has called one of the highest solar installations in the UK after fitting a 26kWp system on top of the redeveloped South Bank Tower, which stands 42 storeys high.

French renewables developer Voltalia has confirmed it is in exclusive, advanced-stage negotiations to acquire Martifer Solar.

Last week Solar Power Portal revealed that the UK installed a total of one point five gigawatts of new solar between January and March this year. But with the ROC scheme closing and feed-in tariff deployment falling some 80% year-on-year, is the UK headed for a cliff edge?

Luxcara has continued to boost its UK solar assets by acquiring two additional farms from Conergy, which will add 19.6MW of capacity to the German company’s renewable energy portfolio.

Solarcentury has donated solar panels to help power the Greenpeace Field at this week’s Glastonbury Festival, supporting the charity’s low carbon theme for this year’s event.

SolarEdge has grown its product offering with this week’s launch of a new suite of energy management technologies alongside the company’s commercial PV solution.

A new report from MPs scrutinising the government’s energy policy has called for significant and wide-ranging changes to the UK’s grid governance and policy landscape if the country is to transition towards low carbon network infrastructure.

Should Great Britain vote to leave the European Union later this week there could be a much greater need for new energy generation capacity, but at the cost of an extra £140 million on annual consumer bills.