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Home energy efficiency expert, Enact Energy, is offering local authorities across Britain the opportunity to take part in a £100,000 marketing campaign during June to encourage local residents to take advantage of free home insulation before the Carbon Emission Reduction Target (CERT) funding permanently ends later this year.
PV manufacturers Phono Solar has signed an agreement to exclusively manufacture, sell and distribute POD PV solar lamps around the world.
Ecobuild, the event for sustainable design, construction and the built environment brought together more than 57,000 industry professionals from 20-22 March 2012 at London’s ExCeL. Over the three days visitors explored the products, services and innovations from more than 1,500 exhibitors including world-renowned organisations, Schueco, E.ON, Saint-Gobain, BASF, Kingspan, Vaillant, and Worcester Bosch. In addition to the industry’s heavy-weights, visitors were also able to explore up and coming companies in the exclusive entrepreneur’s zone, Green Shoots.
Independent analysis by Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace has concluded that Labour’s Ken Livingstone is the greenest of the two front-running candidates in May’s London mayoral elections.
Anesco is helping businesses to green up their energy credentials after launching a new scheme to provide fully funded biomass boiler installations.
The Green Deal Connections Roadshow came to an end last week following the completion of its final date at Salford Quays.
Chris Huhne has resigned from his post as energy secretary following the Crown Prosecution Service’s decision to charge him with covering up a speeding offence.
Director of public prosecutions, Keir Starmer, took the unusual step of making a televised statement announcing that Mr Huhne, MP for Eastleigh, is to be charged with perverting the course of justice. Cabinet secretary Sir Jeremy Haywood and other senior government ministers had already indicated that Huhne would have to quit if subjected to criminal proceedings.
The charges relate to allegations that he avoided a driving ban in 2003 by making his ex wife Vicky Pryce take penalty points after being caught speeding on the M11.
Huhne was already in the headlines following his pledge to make a final appeal to the Supreme Court over last month’s High Court ruling which went against the government’s plans to reduce the Feed-in Tariff (FiT).
Both Huhne and his ex-wife will appear before magistrates on February 16.
The cost of a solar cell is given per unit of peak electrical power. Manufacturing costs necessarily include the cost of energy required for manufacture. Solar power must become more efficient and less expensive to compete with energy produced by fossil fuels, reports ENN.com.
Enecsys has teamed with Ember to bring wireless ZigBee communications to roof-top solar PV systems so that households and businesses can better monitor and optimize their systems’ performance.
Enecsys has integrated Ember’s ZigBee system-on-chip (SoC) and ZigBee PRO software into its SMI series of micro inverters, which convert the DC output of solar panels into AC for connection to the electricity grid. Unlike traditional centralized string inverters, Enecsys’ micro inverters connect to each module of a solar PV system, or each pair of modules in the case of the “Duo” product. They deliver better energy harvest, higher reliability, longer life expectancy, and greater solar PV design flexibility.