Featured in Europe’s solar reshuffle – 11-2014

Between a ROC and a hard place

UK market update: April sees large-scale UK solar shut out from the Renewable Obligation Certificate (ROC) scheme a program that has helped push PV beyond 5 GW of installed capacity this year. How will the incoming Contracts for Difference (CfD) program fare, and are residential and commercial ready to take up the slack?

By

Ian Clover

27 Oct 2014

Nestled amid rolling Welsh hills, a deep blue facade of 147,600 solar modules glistens like a calm ocean surface marooned against an emerald valley. At 37.8 MW, the Crundale Solar Farm in Pembrokeshire – an area of outstanding natural beauty stretching across the wild, western extreme of southern Wales – is the latest addition to the U.K.’s …

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