Permission for a new solar farm in Buckinghamshire has been refused by Wycombe District Council. This blog looks at the future of solar parks together with solar PV rooftop panels in the UK.

People interested in switching to solar panels have until 14th January 2016 to complete their applications, in order to benefit from the current feed-in tariff scheme.

Recent Government Energy policy changes have led to energy projects being put on hold, as investors are reluctant to finance them. Unless this is addressed, energy supplies will struggle meet the demands of the national grid, and the cost of energy from the grid will cost households around £120 more per year.

Buried waste in our landfill sites decomposes anaerobically to generate methane which is 23 times more damaging for the environment than CO2. The UK is starting to find alternatives to landfill in order to meet our emissions targets. Buckinghamshire has now started to process some of its rubbish to generate electricity that can be fed back into the grid.

Storage of solar energy could provide practical and financial solutions in our move away from fossil fuels and towards renewable energy. This article examines hydroelectric pumped storage systems, cryogenic storage and lithium batteries.

In the next decade there could be a catastrophic shortage of power in the UK. This could be overcome with renewable energy with continuing drop in price of solar panels.

Wycombe District council will this month receive a planning proposal for the development of a Solar Farm, with acres of solar panels, on greenbelt land in Little Marlow, Buckinghamshire.

This week the UK Government announced that all coal-fired energy plants will close in the UK by 2025. They aim to have reliable, cost-effective energy and to reduce carbon emissions. The government intend to switch to gas-fuelled power plants as a replacement. Environmental groups have welcomed the phasing out of coal but they are wary of it being superseded by gas-plants instead of a shift in focus to more sustainable renewable energy.

The British government has been warned that it is not on track to meet its target of 15% of the UK's energy to come from renewables by 2020. This comes as the government is set to cut its subsidies for renewable energy and could result in legal action.

The government are planning to cut the feed-in tariff currently provide to subsidise the solar panel industry in the UK. The cut of 87% - which may be introduced as early as January 2016 - will discourage homeowners from using solar panels and is predicted to result in up to 27000 job losses in the solar panel industry.