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After another successful series of shows, with more visitors, more exhibitors & more presentations than ever before, the ‘Energy Efficiency Exhibitions, incorporating Renewables Roadshow’ promises to deliver everything you need, everywhere in the UK.
PAS 2030 has been updated to reflect changes to the Green Deal Code of Practice and ensure that appropriate consideration has been given to commercial properties.
The government has today tabled new clauses to the energy bill.
David Cameron has given his personal backing to the continuing drive for energy efficiency and the decarbonisation of the UK’s economy.
L-R Lord Karan Bilimoria, Paul Hutchens, managing director of Eco2Solar and Shalini Khemka, chief executive of E2Exchange (award sponsors).
Kidderminster businessman and Eco2Solar managing director, Paul Hutchens, has been named ‘Midlands Entrepreneur of the Year’ at the 2013 Midlands Business Awards.
A record amount of electricity has been generated by wind energy in Great Britain, according to National Grid.
Richard Martin joins the Green Energy team as head of marketing
Energy efficiency consultancy, Green Energy has bolstered its team by recruiting a head of marketing and an office administrator.
NAPIT is the latest organisation to throw its support behind Green Deal, which was officially launched last Monday (28 Jan).
Agreed in the week that the government’s flagship energy saving scheme went live, Toriga reports that it is delighted to be the first Green Deal Provider to officially sign a Green Deal Plan with a UK homeowner. As part of its exclusive partnership with Travis Perkins plc, all materials for the project will be provided by the Group.
Former energy minister Chris Huhne has stepped down as an MP after pleading guilty to perverting the course of justice.
Anesco ceo Adrian Pike
The government should be applauded for its Green Deal scheme and the lasting financial and environment benefits it will bring, according to the boss of energy efficiency firm Anesco.
UFW Ltd has signed an exclusive partnership with Swedish wind turbine specialists ecWind.
The government’s forest policy statement has been welcomed by Back Biomass Campaign.
More businesses and homeowners in the UK are turning to renewable energy than ever before, according to the latest edition of the Renewable Energy Roadmap published by energy secretary Ed Davey.
The Roadmap shows that renewable energy output increased by 27 percent between July 2011 and July 2012, and now more than 10 percent of all energy created is coming from renewables.
And ministers from the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) will be at Ecobuild 2013 to further discuss green initiatives.
HETAS has become the first organisation to successfully map biomass assessments against National Occupational Standards (NOS). This means that biomass installer training will be available through HETAS’s nationwide network of approved training centers, some of which are approved with the National Skills Academy for Environmental Technologies.
Renewable energy provider Enevis has welcomed the launch of the government’s Green Deal, which aims to help homeowners cut costs and carbon emissions.
According to organisers UBM, addressing the environmental impact of the world’s cities is top of the agenda at Ecobuild 2013.
A renewable energy developer says it has revised the scale of its Quixwood Moor Wind Farm project in keeping with its commitment to working in partnership with local communities in the Scottish Borders.
Green energy company Triodos Renewables started the new-year with the erection of two new wind turbines at Eye, Suffolk. The Eye project is Triodos Renewables’ ninth renewable energy project, and the fourth that’s been developed on a brownfield site.
12 months since installing its first Vergnet wind turbine, a North Yorkshire renewables company is reporting that its UK fleet is surpassing expectations.
A heating installer from Devon has been ordered to pay almost £3,500 by Barnstaple Magistrates Court for offences including the misuse of the HETAS logo. Warren Emo, trading as Fired Up, pleaded guilty to all three charges which included giving a customer incorrect advice on the installation of woodburning stoves.
The Green Electrician Group has won a contract to supply three vertical PV facades for Irwell Valley Housing Association. Working for main contractor ISG, the project includes the installation of three, 16-panel, vertical PV arrays on tower apartments, providing electricity for use in communal areas.
Chris Davis, Dimplex
Bob Long is an engineer with heat pump specialists Eco Innovate. This is the first of a series of articles in which Bob discusses problems often encountered when installing this technology and ways to resolve them.