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The approval of the heavily subsidized GBP 18bn nuclear project will be a bitter pill to swallow for the UK’s renewable energy industry, on a day that official energy statistics reveal renewable energies in the country generated more electricity than coal for the first time in 2015.

Projects approved are expected to mostly be solar PV, and the deal will include a 3 MW pilot community solar program.

A U.S. court has granted Hemlock’s hefty claim against the leading solar PV company, which remains confident that enforcement of the lawusuit will fail in Germany.

Inducements for growing numbers of homes, businesses and schools to go solar are increasingly under assault from utilities, which see distributed clean energy generation as a threat to their business model, according to Environment America.

The prospect of a virtually invisible electricity transportation system within and on the surface of windows could be especially attractive to architects, designers and building occupants in tall towers and skyscrapers.

The changes will make it easier and cheaper for customers to become more energy efficient, according to the state-owned grid operator. Ausgrid supplies electricity to nearly 1.7 million customers in New South Wales.

The distributed generation landscape is still in its early stages, with lots of players but no definitive winners, according to Lux Research. Large industrial conglomerates are and renewables-focused installers are the best positioned to accelerate the DG rollout, it adds.

The Green Omni Terminal Project will be a scalable model to upgrade the 26 other terminals at the Port of Los Angeles as well as other terminals worldwide.

The nation’s capital now has the fifth-most-aggressive RPS policy in the nation. As part of the new program the city plans to install solar PV on 100,000 homes where low-income families live.

Jubilant scenes as Bertrand Piccard touches down in Abu Dhabi to complete the Solar Impulse 2’s round-the-world flight powered by the sun.