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26 January 2015
Top Stories   Business   Installations   Opinion   Policy   Market   Blogs  

Nominations for this year’s Solar Power Portal Awards are now open! Following feedback from last year we’ve drastically streamlined the application process and allowed other parties to nominate companies who they believe are deserving of an award. We’ve also tinkered with the categories to better reflect the maturing UK solar market in 2015. Elsewhere, rising PV deployment has meant that the feed-in tariff will degress in April. All this and more can be found in today’s newsletter.

Peter Bennett
Editor
Solar Power Portal

Top Stories  
SPP awards

Solar Power Portal Awards 2015: Entries are now open

Nominations for this year’s Solar Power Portal Awards are now open!

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SMA

SMA Solar cutting a further 1,000 jobs by mid-year on lower sales forecast

Leading PV inverter manufacturer, SMA Solar Technology is slashing a further 1,000 jobs, primarily in Germany due to lower expected sales in 2015 from its traditional German and European markets.

Nick Boyle discusses Lightsource’s ambition for the UK solar market

Taplow 1

Taplow Shopping Centre gets double solar makeover

The refurbished Bishop Centre retail park is now generating its own electricity thanks to two traditional PV arrays and bespoke solar PV louvres.

Opinion  
Tim Yeo

Tim Yeo launches scathing attack on DNO ‘monopoly’

Tim Yeo has called for more scrutiny over how the distributed network operators (DNOs) conduct their businesses.

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Policy  
New build solar

MPs urged to reinstate ‘meaningful’ Zero Carbon Homes standard

MPs have been asked to back amendments to the Infrastructure Bill which would help strengthen the “meaningless” Zero Carbon Homes standard after the bill was watered down.

Market  
solar

Rising PV deployment triggers April feed-in tariff degressions

The feed-in tariff rates for both the 0-10kW and 50kW-5MW capacity bands will degress by 3.5% from April 2015, according to the latest statistics published by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC).

Blogs  
Pile of coins

The path to zero subsidy

Solar’s path to zero subsidy has been blocked by politically charged interference. The Solar Trade Association’s Paul Barwell talks through the group’s plan to cut costs and boost deployment. How could any government say no?

Jobs  

UK Sales Manager

Van der Valk Solar System

Kent, UK