Aussie bank Macquarie invests in UK free solar scheme

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Deal with Freetricity and Styles&Wood Energy will see 1,500 homes a month fitted with solar systems for 'the foreseeable future'

Freetricity has teamed up with Australian investment bank Macquarie to fund up to 1,500 household solar installations a month, which it claims is the largest free solar rollout of its kind in the UK...

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