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Following last November’s announcement that the Energy Saving Trust had become a social enterprise with charitable status, it has now reached a new landmark and been awarded the contract to run the Government’s new energy efficiency advice line by the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC).
In April 2012, a new look version of ProSol TF known as ProSol TF+, will be available from solar energy and building envelope specialist, Schueco. Designed as a BIPV product, Schueco say that the ProSol TF+ is an advanced, higher-efficiency thin-film PV module that produces a 30 per cent increase in electrical output over conventional PV thin-film products.
A community co-operative has awarded the contract to supply a hydro-electric turbine for a sustainable energy scheme nearWhitbyto fellow Yorkshire-based business, JN Bentley.
Despite more and more people feeling the pinch this past year, it is reassuring to see that support has been outstanding for the fundraising efforts of Plumb Center and Parts Center. With the help of the generous customers throughout the UK an outstanding £105,000 was raised for Action for Children.
Energy efficiency company, Climate Energy, has just been ranked third in the latest Sunday Times Deloitte Buyout Track 100. This annual league table ranks companies by growth in profits over the last two years of available accounts.
Suntech Power Holdings has been awarded the ‘Top Brand PV’ seal by EuPD Research, a market research and consultation firm.
Fire investigators believe a spark from machinery triggered the huge fire that swept through Europe’s biggest biomass power plant yesterday.
European countries will have to set themselves legally binding national energy efficiency targets, and save energy by specific means such as renovating public buildings, under a draft EU directive approved by a European Parliament committee today.
The Heating and Ventilating Contractors’ Association’s (HVCA) name change is a sign of the times, says the organisation’s president Bob Shelley.
Demand for exhibition space at the Oil & Renewable Energy Show 2012 continues to exceed all expectations – even though there are still more than seven months before the doors open for the national showcase of the industry’s products, services and new technologies.
Demand for exhibition space at the 2012 Oil & Renewable Energy Show is strongly exceeding expectations, with some of the UK’s biggest and best-respected names having already committed to showcasing their products and services at the Manchester event in October.
Some of the best known names in the renewable energy and oil sector have chosen to become sponsors of the UK’s premier showcase for the latest and future energy solutions – the Oil & Renewable Energy Show 2012, at Manchester Central in October. Dozens more are using the event to exhibit and demonstrate their cutting-edge technologies and services.
The pioneering district heating scheme in the Shetland capital Lerwick is to expand thanks to a unique ‘Wind to Heat’ renewable energy collaboration with power company SSE.
The Government is expected to appeal to the Supreme Court later today (Tuesday 21 February 2012) against a High Court ruling that its plans to cut solar subsidy payments are illegal.
The Renewable Energy Association has welcomed an Energy and Climate Change Committee report acknowledging the potential of marine renewables, but questions the logic of it’s targets.
The European renewable energy industry now maintains more than one million jobs as the latest official figures show employment figures in the sector have increased by a quarter in a year.
Rental income from wind farm developments increased by between 10 and 15 per cent throughout 2011, according to research by CKD Galbraith.
REA chief executive, Gaynor Hartnell, gives an initial response to today’s Feed-in Tariff Consultation
“The government certainly needed to take steps to stabilise the Feed-in Tariff and we welcome this consultation. The ultimate aim should be tariffs that deliver a reasonable and stable rate of return and which fall in line with cost reductions in technology. Whether the government has got those calculations right, is another matter. The solar tariffs fall so steeply that by July this year they could be lower than those for wind and hydro. It is a tall order – and solar companies have been vocal in their disbelief.
Energy Ministers have today revealed plans to ensure the Feed-in Scheme will continue to support the roll-out of renewable energy across the UK.
New Energy Secretary Ed Davey must announce steps to safeguard the 29,000 solar jobs currently threatened by disastrous Government proposals to reform the solar subsidy scheme when he publishes the results of a public consultation into the plans on Thursday (9 February), says Friends of the Earth.
A new offensive on cutting energy waste was launched by Edward Davey today, with the creation of a dedicated team within DECC assembled to spearhead energy efficiency policy and make it more relevant to people’s everyday lives.
Renewable Energy Association chief executive Gaynor Hartnell has responded to Chris Huhne’s resignation from the cabinet as energy secretary.
She said: “Chris Huhne was a strong advocate of the renewables agenda and no doubt his forcefulness will have been a key factor in securing a better outcome than many feared regarding the budgets for the Renewables Obligation, the Renewable Heat Incentive and the Feed-in Tariffs. The subsequent poor handling of the latter was regrettable. We would like the new incumbent to make rebuilding investor trust and confidence in the Government’s renewable energy policies their number one priority.”
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.