Solar 22

News

Government ends zero carbon homes

The government has confirmed the end of plans to introduce the zero carbon offsetting scheme, and proposed increases in energy efficiency standards for new homes.
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News

Solar Frontier opens UK office

Solar Frontier has opened an office in London, as it looks to scale up its residential and commercial rooftop and power plant business in the UK.
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Opinion

Q&A: Enphase Energy

Simon Baggaley is UK sales director at Enphase Energy REI: What are Enphase’s plans for the UK in the next 5 years? SB: Enphase has gone from strength to strength in the UK market since its entry back in 2012 and we plan to continue this momentum. Our market share in the residential inverter sector is growing. We are currently at 10 percent and would envision being closer to 25 percent five years from now.
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Opinion

PV on tin sheds

With recent government policy shifts towards putting PV on large roofs, it is vital that installers are familiar with the mechanical issues that can arise on typical large commercial roofs, explains Steve Pester, BRE
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Opinion

Pollard’s Patter

DECC has now published its Quarterly Domestic RHI forecast (as at 30 April 2015). As a result, the degression ‘super trigger’ for biomass has been passed. This means the current biomass tariff of 8.93p per kilowatt hour will be reduced by 20 percent for all new applications made from 1 July 2015. Similarly, the small-scale biomass tariff in the non-domestic scheme will degress by 25 percent from the same date.
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Opinion

Talking point

Liz MacFarlane, Zenex Solar, looks back on a productive time spent at Intersolar Europe
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News

Final opportunity to enter H&R Awards

Nominations are coming in thick and fast for this year’s Heating and Renewables Awards and this year’s ceremony is likely to break the record set last year of over 300 entries.
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News

Powervault aims to dominate storage market

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA Powervault has raised £700,000 on investment crowdfunding platform Crowdcube to become a leading player in the home energy storage market.
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Opinion

Q&A – Philip Hildrup

Philip Hildrup is sales director at Right2Impvoe REI: What you got planned for the rest of 2015? PH: The main focus for me for 2015 is to introduce one of our manufacturers’ new products – the Blueberry Smart Hub. It allows the customer to monitor, control and budget what they are spending on their heating and hot water. As a distributor of the Blueberry Smart Hub, we are able to not only provide the consumer with a great product, but it will also help us build a relationship with them by communicating via the hub to make further savings and tweaks.
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Opinion

Two of a kind

Liz MacFarlane, Zenex Solar, provides an update on how things are going since the acquisition of Zenex by PV distributor Segen three months ago
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News

Navitron partners with SunEdison

Navitron commercial director, Stephen Knight Navitron has signed an agreement with SunEdison, to become an installation partner in the UK.
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News

SunEdison seeks Britain’s brightest street

SunEdison is searching for #BritainsBrightestStreet to mark the launch of its SunEdison Energy Saver Plan which provides homeowners with solar for no upfront cost.
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Opinion

A burning issue

Steve Pester summarises some of the real fire risks seen on PV installations
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Opinion

Transitioning from RO to CfD

Gordon Moran, writing for the European Energy Centre (EEC), examines the impact of the Contracts for Difference (CfD) market on the sector so far
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Opinion

Commercially minded

Liz MacFarlane, Zenex Solar, identifies a number of barriers to increasing PV deployment in the commercial market
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Opinion

Pollard’s patter

I am currently immersed in the Energy Related Products (ErP) directive. You may know that from 26 September it becomes mandatory for most heating devices to be ErP compliant and to carry an energy label. This includes air source, water source or ground source heat pumps. Furthermore, where a defined set of components are installed together, then there is a need for a ‘Package Label’ which could include a solar thermal device.
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News

SMA Solar UK hits 35 percent market share

SMA Solar UK estimates to have reached a 35 percent share in the UK inverter market, after successfully commissioning a raft of large PV plants ahead of forthcoming ROC deadline.
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News

SolarMoney passes 10 million mark

SolarAid has announced that its social enterprise SolarMoney is now improving the lives of 10 million people living in Africa, having sold close to 1.7 million solar lights.
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