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The Local Government Association (LGA) said ministers had “undermined confidence” in their “green agenda”.
The Government is undermining confidence in energy policy and hurting the UK solar industry by rushing through panicked changes to Feed-in Tariffs (FiTs) without adequate notice to consumers and installers alike, according to a new report by MPs on two influential select committees.
Yorkshire-based Ploughcroft, solar panel installer and renewable energy trainer, has won a prestigious award for its popular new Eco Roof Visitors Centre.
Chancellor George Osborne’s recent Autumn Statement confirmed a £200 million introductory offer to help boost the Green Deal when it eventually comes in to force. The consultation period for the scheme is due to end on 18 January 2012, with a number of points still needing to be finalised.
A mid-Wales renewable energy firm has joined organisations from all over the world in a new scheme that recognises a dedication to excellence in Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA).
A recent survey published by the University of Westminster, shows that Asia is leading the way when it comes to the development of eco-cities with one third of the total number of projects across the globe based in the continent. The research also found that the UK and France top the list in Europe.
Econergy, market leaders in the field of biomass heating solutions, has been acquired by British Gas. In 2009 Centrica, the parent company of British Gas, invested in the business buying a 19% stake, and today they concluded a deal to purchase the remaining 81% from the current shareholders for £6.5m in cash.
Chancellor George Osborne’s recent Autumn Statement confirmed a £200 million introductory offer to help boost the Green Deal when it eventually comes in to force. The consultation period for the scheme is due to end on 18 January 2012, with a number of points still needing to be finalised.
Britain’s first Energy Shop has opened with the aim of making buying low-carbon energy as simple as stocking up on the weekly shop.
Sheffield-based company, The Energy Initiative, is encouraging consumers in South Yorkshire to continue to invest in solar power despite recent cuts to a government subsidy.
Charlotte Leslie MP has officially opened the NAPIT Bristol Training Centre – as part of its joint venture with Plumb Center and Sevenoaks Energy Academy.
This picture shows the moment a huge wind turbine erupted in flames after it was struck by hurricane-force winds in Scotland.
The UK government could face legal action over its plans to more than halve solar subsidies, the European Commission has today confirmed.
An effective launch of the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) has been thwarted because the government fears a repeat of the chaos surrounding solar Feed-in Tariffs, the UK’s largest supplier and installer of renewable energy equipment has revealed.
Witham-based carbon reduction group, Climate Energy, has been placed 55th in a nationwide league of fastest growing companies.
Farm scale wind turbine manufacturer Gaia-Wind has won the Scottish Renewables Green Energy Award for business growth. The award recognises ‘outstanding business growth or the development of exciting and ambitious plans for the future by a renewable energy business’ and comes just days after the company was ranked at number five in the list of Europe’s fastest growing Cleantech companies.
The Green Deal Skills Alliance (a partnership of SummitSkills, Asset Skills and ConstructionSkills) has secured £1.4m to help employers take advantage of commercial opportunities around the low carbon agenda.
Businesses and communities across Britain will from Monday be able to apply for a heat tariff payment, triggering a new era of clean green heat technology, energy minister Greg Barker, said today.
Sixty per cent of the world is now generating electricity using solar products manufactured in China. In latter years, made in China, left UK consumers distinctly unimpressed, but today companies such as the ET Solar Group, are producing a quality product at a lower cost. Now widely used in countries like Germany, where top quality manufacturing is the norm, Renewable Energy Installer (REI) witnessed the company’s operation first hand. Jane Hughes reports
Established in October 2006, the ET Solar Group is a one-stop solar power solution provider which employs 3,000 people across its 10 wholly-owned subsidiaries and three manufacturing plants. With local sales and marketing subsidiaries and offices in Asia, Europe, and North America, ET Solar provides solar modules, solar tracking systems and turnkey solution services to its customers in over 50 countries.
“We’re a young, vibrant company with a passion for renewable energy technology,” explained global marketing director, Santran Duan. “But passion is not enough, to that we have added excellence.”
Commenting on the Green Deal announcement yesterday (Wednesday 23 November) by energy and climate change secretary Chris Huhne, Friends of the Earth’s energy campaigner Paul Steedman said: “Our energy bills are rocketing because the Big Six power companies are keeping us hooked on expensive imported gas.
RWE npower renewables, UK wind energy company, has been granted planning permission to build a twelve-turbine wind farm located between the villages of Bozeat, Harrold and Lavendon.
Stove and biomass boiler solutions provider, Euroheat, is going back to its roots with the re-introduction of the EFEL brand of wood and gas cast iron stoves.
The latest independent Customer Satisfaction Report from uSwitch.com reveals that just a year after reaching an all-time high, satisfaction with energy suppliers has plunged back to a low. All of Britain’s big six energy suppliers have seen a drop in the number of customers satisfied after a year of price hikes, fines and turbulence in the energy market takes its toll:
The Co-operative Bank’s steadfast support for business was underlined today by new figures showing it has lent more than half a billion pounds to renewable energy projects since 2007.