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Scottish renewable energy specialist Solar Electricity Systems has dramatically reinforced predictions of a boom in the domestic green energy market with a forecast of a more than seventeen-fold increase in earnings.
Burnley-based PV company Solarlec has expanded its installation capacity after announcing a £12m turnover for last year.
As part of its range of products and services, NAPIT Hire now provides equipment specifically suitable for the solar PV installation sector, including the guaranteed provision of scaffolding towers which, with the recent increase in market activity, has seen unprecedented uptake from installers.
If you’re looking for hands-on experience with micro-renewables, backed up with practical advice from experts, head to Ecobuild and London’s ExCeL on Tuesday 20 – Thursday 22 March.
Shadow energy and climate change minister, Luciana Berger, visited Plumb Center’s Sustainable Building Center in Leamington Spa to discuss renewable technologies and support for energy efficiency measures. The visit coincided with the government’s announcement of revised Feed-in Tariffs for microgeneration, including solar PV and micro combined heat and power (mCHP).
Waxman Energy, designers and distributors of solar PV systems, has announced four major new supplier partnerships.
The long term level of financial incentive to stimulate take up of solar PV may finally be FiT for purpose, according to ELECSA, the renewable technology certification body.
Leading renewable energy company Caplor Energy has this month launched a new scheme to support local groups keen to install solar energy systems on community buildings.
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 Solar Trade Association has responded to the Department of Energy and Climate Change’s Supreme Court Appeal.
Energy Minister Greg Barker has defended the Government’s legal move to appeal to the Supreme Court over the Feed-in Tariff fiasco.
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.
Energy Ministers have submitted their final appeal in an attempt to overturn a High Court ruling that cuts to the Feed-in Tariff were unlawful.
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 new rate for solar PV under the government’s Feed-in Tariff scheme for existing and new installations has been increased by 2.1p to 45.4p.
Dimplex has dismissed rumours that DECC is planning to ‘rein in’ subsidies for heat pumps as part of the £860m Renewable Heat Incentive scheme, in order to avoid running into the type of financial troubles that have hit the Feed-in Tariff (FiT) in recent months.
UK policy and business leaders discuss low-carbon sector collaboration with North America
British government and business leaders discussed the economic and environmental benefits of the UK’s Green Deal – the no-cost-down program to retrofit 26 million British homes and businesses – during a Renewable Energy World 2012 conference panel. The panel focused on how government policies act as core drivers to develop a clean energy economy and spur global business opportunities.
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.
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.
Reacting to new energy secretary Ed Davey’s support for clean energy today, announced at the Building Research Establishment (BRE) testing facility for green homes near Watford, on his first ministerial visit since replacing Chris Huhne, Friends of the Earth’s, executive director, Andy Atkins said: “Ed Davey’s enthusiasm for renewable energy is encouraging – he now has a crucial opportunity to build a safe and affordable future for us all.
The UK’s new energy secretary, Ed Davey, has declared his brother’s close links to the energy industry with a client list that reads like a Who’s Who of the biggest players in the fossil fuel sector.