News
Atmos Consulting expands to help meet MCS noise requirements
Atmos Consulting is to expand its noise and acoustic service into performance testing of micro wind turbines.
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News
DONG Energy enters into Siemens agreement
DONG Energy and Siemens AG have entered into agreements securing potential supplies and servicing of a total of 154 offshore wind turbines of 6 megawatt each, giving a total capacity of 924 megawatt.
News
High Court rejects Milton Keynes wind policy
The High Court in London has ruled that the way in which Milton Keynes Council imposed fixed separation distances between turbines and dwellings was introduced incorrectly.
News
Social enterprise raises £82,000 to back community energy projects
Communities for Renewables CIC (CfR), a community interest company set up by Regen SW and Green Trust CIC, has announced today it has successfully raised £82,000 investment.
News
Drumbeat offers one-to-one SME support
Energy management business support service Drumbeat Energy Management is offering UK SMEs expert energy management support in the form of a 15 minute one-to-one telephone consultation with one of their experienced Energy Managers.
News
Turning the tide
Engineers, economists, local government officials and conservationists are gathering at UWE Bristol this week [18 April] to discuss innovative and sustainable solutions to generating power from the Severn Estuary. The conference has been organised by RSPB, Regen SW and The Bristol Port Company.
News
Uponor launch new look price guide
Uponor UK has relaunched its price guide and given it a design overhaul.
News
REAL Consumer Code opts for name change
The consumer code for the domestic renewable energy sector has changed its name from the ‘REAL Consumer Code’ to the ‘Renewable Energy Consumer Code’ (RECC).
News
Ecobuild India announce speaker lineup
The inaugral Ecobuild India will feature more than 100 sustainability experts as part of its conference programme when it takes place at the Bombay Exhibition Centre, Mumbai from 16-18 April 2013.
News
Sharp rise in Green Deal assessments
March saw a four fold increase in the number of Green Deal assessments made as the energy efficiency scheme continues to gain traction.
News
Beverley Racecourse fitted with WINAICO panels
WINAICO says it is delighted to have been selected as the module supplier for a 50kW scheme at Beverley Racecourse, Yorkshire.
News
CleanTech Centre to host SME event
Nottingham CleanTech Centre is to host a series of events later this month aimed at showing SMEs how effective simple energy efficiency improvements can be.
News
World’s largest offshore wind farm comes online
Developers of the London Array – the World’s largest offshore wind farm – have announced that all 175 turbines at the site are now fully operational.
News
Wessex Group manager named as ‘rising star’
Rising star Thomas Mortimer
As Wessex Group celebrates its 50th anniversary, one of its managers has been named amongst the top 50 ‘rising stars’ in the UK’s sustainable construction sector.
Product
Uponor brings Q&E to the UK
Uponor has launched its new Q&E complete plumbing system in the UK, designed to offer a direct alternative to copper and plastic push-fit systems for heating, hot water and cold water services.
Product
Optimising results
Vphase has introduced to new products to its range of voltage optimisation devices.
News
Heat Pump Association criticise RHI delay
The Heat Pump Association (HPA) says it ‘cannot hide its profound disappointment’ at the delay to the launch of the domestic RHI and amendments to the commercial scheme which had been due this summer.
News
Eco Environments goes into liquidation
David Hunt, previously of Eco Environments, has joined Renewable Solutions UK
Liverpool-based Eco Environments has gone into liquidation.
Opinion
Talking ten to the dozen
Daniel Silcock, operations manager, Renewable Solutions UK
Q: Who is your hero in renewable energy?
“I’d nominate Vincent Kirkman, my former tutor at BoltonCollege. I was an apprentice there between 1998 and 2002 and I learned a huge amount from Vinnie. We’re now friends and I saw him again recently whilst installing solar PV, heat pumps, underfloor heating and rainwater harvesting at the College.”
Daniel Silcock, operations manager, Renewable Solutions UK
Opinion
Q & A – Manhal Allos
Q: What have you got planned for 2013?
iVolt is part of the global Sollatek group and in the two years since its launch we’ve set out to revolutionise the way voltage optimisation (VO) works. In 2013 we’ll be building on our advanced technology with the launch of new products including one specifically for new-builds., which offers even greater savings. We’re also developing plans to offer a gain-share solution and developing an international network of re-sellers/introducers.
Opinion
Two minutes with…
Who are you?
Anthony Mayall, managing director of NIFES Consulting Group
Opinion
Shift patterns
Search history: According to Cathy Debenham, YouGen, has seen a shift in consumer interest for renewables over the last year
Cathy Debenham, YouGen, offers an insight into consumer interest in renewables over the last year.
Although we run a renewable energy website, you wouldn’t have thought it in February last year. Virtually all the questions we were asked were about solar PV (or the Feed-in Tariff for solar PV). After the home page, solar PV was easily the most visited section of YouGen, with nearly double the monthly traffic of the next most popular section (biomass boilers).
Opinion
What’s in store?
BRE’s Steve Pester, looks at the growing importance of energy storage in renewables.
News
JPCS powers up 90,000 homes
Peter Shone, managing director of Cheshire-based JPCS
JPCS reports that it has passed the 50MWp milestone in UK ground-mounted PV installations.