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Opinion

Current affairs

By Bill Wright, head of energy solutions at The Electrical Contractor’s Association  After an initial burst the domestic RHI got off to a slow start with less than 160 accreditations in the first two weeks, most of these being legacy applications. It will take time for new systems to be installed and accredited but I have heard of an increase of interest from potential clients. OFGEM are well prepared for this scheme using the experience gained from the non domestic RHI.
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Opinion

Q&A – Hydratech

Q: What have you got planned for the rest of 2014? To continue developing the excellent relationships and associations Hydratech has built with companies operating, installing and maintaining renewable energy systems. We are the only UK based formulator specialising in the manufacture of inhibited heat transfer fluids and will continue to invest heavily in R&D to expand our innovative product range. Most recently, Biotherm was launched to provide long lasting protection for biomass heating systems and we look forward to seeing the market warm up as individuals take advantage of the domestic RHI.
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Opinion

Two minutes with 4Eco

Who are you? Jodi Huggett, business development director at 4Eco
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Product

NSC gathers pace

The National Solar Centre continues to ramp up its activities and outputs, reports Steve Pester, BRE
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Opinion

Making the most of RHI

Although much attention has been placed on the level of installations which will be supported by the domestic RHI, legacy applications can also be made until 09 April 2015, explains Robert Burke, HETAS
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Opinion

Heat pumps and flexible living

Bob Long, MD Eco Innovate Ltd Following on from last month’s article discussing suitable choices for heat emitters, heat pump specialist Bob Long looks at the importance of lifestyles requirements and occupants’ specific heating needs Consideration of lifestyle should be an integral part of system design, particularly when the heat source is to be a heat pump.  Designing a heat pump system to optimise upon the economics of operation can be much more complex than designs employing combustible-fuelled counterpart.
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Feature

Sector reacts to non domestic RHI changes

The extension of the non domestic RHI (phase two) also see significant increases to tariffs for GSHPs (from 4.3p/kWh to 8.4p/kWh), large biomass, solar thermal and deep geothermal, which all come into effect this week.
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News

HETAS clarifies CE marking for biomass

HETAS has agreed a statement with Trading Standards following confusion over the CE marking of solid fuel, wood and biomass appliances.
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Product

Mitsubishi launch water source Ecodan

Mitsubishi Electric has launched a new Ecodan ground and water source heat pump system which it claims can deliver up to 960kW of renewable heating and water flow temperatures of up to 65°C.
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News

Shadow chancellor visits Prestige Solar

Ed Ball, shadow chancellor, visited Prestige Solar in Chatham, Kent earlier this month to discuss the implementation of Green Deal and affordable heating in local communities.
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News

Half price cylinder training with Worcester

Worcester, Bosch Group is offering half price training to support those installers keen to take advantage of its new Greenstore range of high efficiency unvented cylinders.
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News

Wood Heat Association becomes REA affiliated

The Renewable Energy Association (REA) will today welcome the newly formed Wood Heat Association (WHA) as an affiliate trade association. The announcement will be made later this morning by REA chief executive Dr Nina Skorupska and the WHA’s Neil Harrison at the All-Energy Exhibition & Conference in Aberdeen.
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News

Heating industry unites over GAHP inclusion in RHI

SEA chief executive Dave Sowden Leading heating industry stakeholders (Heating & Hotwater Industry Council, Sustainable Energy Association, UKLPG, Baxi, British Gas, Calor, Robur, Viessmann and Worcester Bosch) have joined forces to support the inclusion of gas absorption heat pumps (GAHPs) in the non-domestic Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) under the upcoming formal review of the scheme.
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Product

Cotswolds Seeds unveils grass mixes for solar farms

Specialist grass, legume and forage seed merchant Cotswold Seeds has launched a range of grass mixes for solar farms, designed to enable farmers to use the land for grazing as well as benefiting the environment and helping mitigate the visual impact of the solar panels.
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News

DECC proposes solar RO scrapping

DECC has proposed closing the Renewables Obligation (RO) to 5MW+ solar farm applications from April 2015.
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News

4Eco joins forces with Mark Group

Jodi Huggett, director of 4Eco – immerSUN 4Eco has announced a new sales partnership with Mark Group.
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Opinion

The future’s looking up for PV

Steve Pester, BRE, focuses on the newly-published Solar Strategy and why its drive towards large roof mounted systems is a sound one
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Opinion

Current affairs

By guest columnist Bill Wright, head of energy solutions, Electrical Contractors’ Association
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