Solar 29

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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Opinion

Q&A – Kevin Arthur, Oxford PV

What have you got planned for the rest of 2014? We’ll be pushing ahead towards a power conversion efficiency of 20 percent and working on achieving the stability that is needed for our PV technology to be incorporated into buildings. At the same time, we will be exploring the utility market and will also be launching a pretty major funding round. The team is likely to expand by another 15-10 people too. It’s going to be a busy nine months!
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News

Web TV show to demonstrate solar savings

Simon Leadbetter of website Blue & Green Tomorrow and Westinghouse Solar’s James Carpenter will present a live web TV show later today at 1.30pm.
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News

Segen launches online forum

Andy Pegg, managing director at Segen Segen has launched a new online discussion forum, available to its customers. The forum has been designed to enable the industry to discuss topics and share experiences of solar PV and heat pumps.
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News

Worcester, Bosch criticises MCS product testing

Martyn Bridges, director of marketing and technical support at Worcester, Bosch Group Martyn Bridges, director of marketing and technical support at Worcester, Bosch Group has spoken out against the number of barriers now in place for those looking to achieve Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS) product accreditation.
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News

Solarlec takes pole position in Sharp PV sales

Solarlec director Nick Keighley Sharp has announced that Burnley-based PV installer Solarlec was its highest achieving domestic solar panel provider in the UK over the last six months.
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Product

Quantum brings Maxcellerator to market

Oxford-based Quantum Power has launched the Maxcellerator which, it says, boasts 100 percent more daily energy harvest than standard or maximum power point tracker (MPPT) devices.
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Product

Segen stocks Delta

Segen has announced the launch of its Delta Black solar panels from Perlight Solar.
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News

Government launches Solar Strategy

The government has today launched its solar strategy setting out ways in which it will boost deployment of the technology throughout the UK.
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Opinion

Supply and demand

With only 500 MCS registered biomass installers currently on the books, demand could prove lucrative for those in the sector once the domestic RHI is in action, says Robert Burke, HETAS
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Opinion

A Winter’s Tale

Steve Pester, BRE, examines how lessons learned from the wettest winter on record can be applied to the production of solar panels
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