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Larkfleet Group has installed an experimental solar power system next to its headquarters in Bourne, Lincolnshire.
The Solar Trade Association (STA) says its focus in 2014 will be to work with The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to boost deployment in the mid-scale solar market.
ReneSola is running UK-based PV installer training days in January 2014.
Segen has today announced a new partnership with Phono Solar, adding a new range of PV panels to its product portfolio.
Peter Grey (left), chairman of the GGF and Malcolm Strattford, technical advisor at The Magic Thermodynamic Box Company
The Magic Thermodynamic Box Company was recently invited to make a presentation on the virtues of thermodynamics to members of the Glass and Glazing Federation (GGF).
Adrian Pike, ceo of Anesco
Anesco has been named the UK’s fastest growing private company in the Sunday Times Virgin Fast Track 100.
Earthwise Products Ltd, manufacturer of the SOLiC 200, is offering a free SOLiC 200 to installers that are yet to try the product.
The government’s confirmation of financial support levels for large scale onshore and offshore wind after 2015 has stirred up a mixed reaction from industry.
Micropower Council chief executive Dave Sowden
Trade bodies and industry leaders have greeted the expansion of the non-domestic RHI to include new technologies and the increase of several tariffs with enthusiasm.
The government is set to announce a cut in subsidy for large scale onshore wind and solar in order to increase support for offshore developments, the BBC understands.
Steve Pester, BRE, provides an update on The National Solar Centre (NSC) since its opening last April
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
The REA and STA welcomes today’s Environmental Audit Committee report ‘Code for Sustainable Homes and the Housing Standards Review’, which criticises the government’s lack of progress and ambition on ensuring all new homes are ‘zero carbon’ by 2016.
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.
Nottingham’s largest solar power project has broken records by raising £500,000 from 337 people in just under a month.
Earthwise Products announces the appointment of Libra Energy UK as a new distributor of the award-winning SOLiC 200.
A new campaign has been launched to resurrect the original green Father Christmas by UK crowdfunding programme Abundance Generation.
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).
A recent ruling by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) may result in UK homeowners who have installed solar panels reclaiming millions of pounds of VAT, says Brian Garner, director of tax at Michelmores LLP.
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.