Zenex Solar’s managing director Liz macFarlane Zenex Solar is reassuring installers not to panic over a PV panel shortage which it is predicting to affect the UK.

PV inverters from SMA Solar can now claim to be manufactured in a zero carbon, scope 2, European manufacturing facility following an independent audit.

Mastervolt’s Solartruck Roadshow has been available to installers across the UK throughout June and has just two more venues to visit in early July.

The Solar Future UK PV conference  will take place this year on 16 July at Central Hall, Westminster in London, and will be followed by the Energy Storage UK conference on 17 July, at the same venue.

Managing director Rajiv Bhatia and the Alternergy team PV supplier Alternergy has been named number two in the Investec Hot 100 2013.

Since May 2013, an international chocolate company has been producing its chocolate bars at a production facility in Abu Dhabi with Austrian solar energy technology.

The ‘Bristol Solar City’ initiative has been welcomed by the leading partners on the £8m Ready for Retrofit programme, Regen SW and the Energy Saving Trust, as an opportunity to create hundreds of new jobs to deliver 1 GW of solar power across the West of England area.

Steve Andrews, SolarAid’s ceo, makes his acceptance speech SolarAid has been selected as a Gold Award winner in the 2013 International Ashden Awards for its work building sustainable markets for small solar lights across East Africa.

Enphase Energy has announced a new initiative aimed to equip installers in the commercial solar market.

Segen has added  the new black framed Hyundai 260w panels to its current range of Hyundai products.

The SOLiC 200 solar immersion controller is now for sale in the UK from renewable energy trade distributors, NuVision Energy.

Following completion of Lark Energy’s first phase of large scale solar projects, totalling 60MWp, the company reports that it has recently secured planning permission for a further 100MWp of solar farms. 

David Grindley of Savills Energy The announcement that the European Commission will impose provisional anti-dumping duties on wafers, solar cells and modules imported from China could be good news for the long-term future of the solar industry, says David Grindley of Savills Energy.

Innotech Solar’s Glava factory Located in the Swedish village of Glava, the module factory of the Scandinavian-German manufacturer, Innotech Solar (ITS), is celebrating its 10th anniversary.

Latest Ofgem figures reveal that over the last year the south west has topped the ‘league table’ for households installing solar panels, with more than 15,000 confirmed installations and around 57 MW installed capacity. This compares to the next closest region, the south east with 13,000 followed by the east midlands with just over 12,000 installations.

Eco2Solar has secured a £0.7m order book to provide solar PV to 323 new homes and four large apartment blocks under its Preferred Supplier Agreement with Galliford Try’s housebuilding division Linden Homes.

The Solar Future is the UK’s leading solar PV conference. This year it will take place on 16th July at Central Hall, Westminster in London, and will be followed by the Energy Storage UK conference on 17th July, at the same venue.