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Paul McCullagh, chief executive of UrbanWind
UrbanWind has completed a £30m funding deal to kick-start onshore wind projects across the UK.
BSRIA were visited by HRH The Duke of York as part of its 60 year celebrations, on April 13th.
Plumbing Trade Supplies (PTS), part of the plumbing and heating division of the Travis Perkins Group, has introduced Matthew Mycock as its new managing director.
Based at the company’s head office in Crick, Matthew is leading PTS’ programme of investment as it accelerates its focus on large contract customers.
Installer2015 is a new national trade show – designed to let renewables installers, heating engineers and plumbers get hands-on with the latest products from over 70 exhibitors, reports Installer magazine’s publisher Eoin McManus
Mitsubishi Electric is holding a series of seminars around the country to highlight the support on offer to installers in promoting and working with its Ecodan heat pump technology.
Carbomat has announced a tie up with inverter manufacturer Solis, which will see the UK distribution group carry the full range of Solis single and three phase string products, ranging from 0.7kW to 30kW.
TV presenter Charlie Luxton will be the keynote speaker at this year’s NICEIC and ELECSA Live South event.
NAPIT, as sponsors of Chesterfield FC, have provided free tickets for competitions and prizes to local charities in North Derbyshire.
The Conservative party’s election pledge to halt the development on new onshore wind farms has been branded ‘idiotic’ and ‘illogical’ by members of the UK wind sector.
Windhager has launched its new DuoWIN combination biomass boiler.
The Contracts for Difference (CfD) register has been released by the Low Carbon Contracts Company (LCCC), confirming that neither of the two solar projects that won CfD contracts for the next financial year will go ahead.
The renewable energy sector has a key role to play in plugging the UK’s skills gap in technology, science, engineering and maths, argues recruitment specialist David Hunt.
Swindon Borough Council has been recognised for being the first in the UK to use planning measures known as Local Development Orders (LDOs) to encourage low carbon generation.
Qualitick has launched its latest installer compliance tool Easy RSS Version 2.0.
Rural Energy has enlisted the support of its local MP to bolster its campaign for policy certainty on biomass.
Who are you? Richard Hiblen, managing director of Green Square home energy centres
With the country set to go to the polls early next month, the spectre of a new government will not halt the move to low carbon heating, says Robert Burke, HETAS
Gordon Moran, writing for the European Energy Centre, predicts a future where fracking and renewables peacefully co-exist rather than compete for investment and priority
By guest columnist Bill Wright, head of energy solutions, Electrical Contractors’ Association
As often happens with my monthly article, the content is decided by yet another real-life event, from the heat pump world. We received a call from the owner of a property with a broken-down heat pump at a location near Preston. The heat pump had been installed four years prior and had cost significantly more to run than originally expected.
As I write this column, the announcement has come through from DECC of another degression in the domestic RHI biomass tariff from 10.98p/kWh to 8.93p/kWh, coming into effect 1 April 2015. I understand that there is a fixed budget and that the uptake for biomass has been dramatically increased, but it seems a huge shame to ‘punish’ the technology which has been the most popular choice for householders. It is also true to say that the inevitable ‘feeding frenzy’ which came after the last announcement of the January degression has undoubtedly been the major factor in the next degression and exceeding the super trigger point.
Entries opened Wednesday 1 April for the prestigious Heating and Renewable Awards; boasting 17 categories that look to celebrate and share best practice across the industry.
Local authorities can now apply for a share of a £25m Central Heating Fund, plus details have been announced of a new £1m warmth-on-prescription scheme to tackle fuel poverty.
DECC has published provisional data which shows that UK greenhouse gas emissions dropped by 8.4 percent in 2014.