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Opinion

National treasure

Steve Pester, BRE, provides an update on The National Solar Centre (NSC) since its opening last April

Opinion

Talking Tech – Heat pumps and DHW

Bob Long, MD Eco Innovate Ltd Heat pump trouble shooter Bob Long focuses on cost effective methods of providing domestic hot water (DHW) from a heat pump

Opinion

Talking point

Zenex Solar’s managing director Liz macFarlane Liz MacFarlane, Zenex Solar, reflects on the four key challenges the PV sector faces if the UK is to see 20GW installed by the end of the decade 

News

Sinclair Meadows wins national award

Not-for-profit housing provider, Four Housing, is celebrating success after its flagship carbon negative development – built by Galliford Try – won a national construction award. 

News

Solfex signs SolarEdge distribution partnership

Solfex Energy Systems, part of the Travis Perkins Group, has announced a new supply partnership with SolarEdge Technologies to distribute its range of power optimisers, inverters and monitoring solutions.

News

Kensa scoops regional award

Kensa Engineering has been named Business of the Year at the Western Morning News Awards.

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CCS shortlisted for national award

Andy Wallace, CCS Finance provider Consumer Credit Solutions (CCS) has been shortlisted for a Construction Marketing Award (www.cmawards.co.uk) in the ‘Best Professional Services Campaign’ category, alongside its agency MRA Marketing.

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Greg Barker opens new lab for Oxford PV

Greg Barker is shown a sample of glass with OPV’s energy-generating coating by founder Kevin Arthur and chief scientific officer Dr Henry Snaith Climate change minister Greg Barker visited Oxford Photovoltaics’ HQ at Begbroke Science Park earlier this week to launch the new fabrication and test facilities.

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Worcester, Bosch Group opens new Northern training centre

Worcester, Bosch Group has opened a brand new training facility in Normanton, near Wakefield, to provide better support and an improved training experience for installer, specifier and merchant customers based in the North of England.

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Oxford PV’s ceo joins Greg Barker on Saudi trip

Kevin Arthur, co-founder and ceo of Oxford Photovoltaics, is currently joining climate change minister Greg Barker in a solar trade mission to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, which is occurring today and tomorrow (11-12 November).

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Danfoss opens doors for fully funded renewables training

Plumbers and other tradespeople from eligible postcodes in South Yorkshire, North East Derbyshire and North Nottinghamshire are being invited to take advantage of fully funded accredited training courses in renewable energy, which are being held at Danfoss’ School of Heat Pump Technology in Sheffield.

Opinion

Talking point

Zenex Solar’s managing director Liz macFarlane Liz MacFarlane, Zenex Solar, refutes claims that the PV sector is a male-only industry

Opinion

Staying in control

Bob Long, MD Eco Innovate Ltd Heat pump trouble shooter Bob Long continues last month’s theme of bivalent energy

Opinion

Current affairs

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