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News

Lark Energy opens UK’s largest solar farm

Lark Energy has announced the grid connection of what it says is the UK’s largest solar farm at the site of a former World War II airfield in Leicestershire.
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Yingli tops PV supplier rankings

Chinese PV manufacturer Yingli became the largest global supplier of modules in 2012, according to data collected by analytics provider IHS.
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Product

LG launch NeoN module

LG Electronics has introduced its new module for 2013: the Mono X NeoN module.
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News

Are you in control?

Controlling interest: Stuart Cooper, Solfex Energy Systems, discusses the importance of the correct selection and parameter set up on controls Stuart Cooper, Solfex Energy Systems, reports on the importance of the correct selection and parameter set up of controls within solar thermal and heating systems, including the features and benefits of the Prozeda Primos, Grandis HK, Conexio 600 & Convisio controls and software
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Prozeda controller range

Bright idea: The Primos 250 Controller The Prozeda Primos 600 solar thermal controller has 6 x temperature inputs ( PT 1000 sensor ), 4 x 230V outputs & 2 x additional low voltage outputs with Pulsed Width Modulation (PWM) to control high efficiency pumps. It also has a connection for Vortex Flow Sensor for yield measurement. This controller is predominantly for solar thermal applications with various hydraulic layouts including systems with two collector fields or two stores. It can also be used to control various back up energy sources and to operate diverting valves within the hydraulic circuit. For simpler solar applications with one collector field, the Primos 250 will suffice and still has the ability to data log and web view system information as standard, this control also can control HE pumps and has a relay output to control another heat source.
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Solar energy for Eastland Homes

Tropo, the renewable energy division of Henry Boot Construction, has completed three solar PV projects on residential tower blocks owned by Eastlands Homes.
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YouGen voted into top 50 ethical companies

Cathy Debenham, founder of YouGen Renewable energy information and directory business YouGen was among the top 50 ethical SMEs in the PEA-ples Favourite competition. With your votes, its founder Cathy Debenham now hopes to make it into the top ten.
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News

New training centre opens for NI installers

A new training centre for Northern Ireland heating installers that focuses on renewable technologies is set to open in Portadown in County Armagh.
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Sun shines for Great Ormes visitors’ centre

The Great Orme visitors’ centre in Llandudno has been fitted with solar panels that will reduce energy bills and improve the building’s carbon footprint. The system, supplied by Hertfordshire-based Caplor Energy, forms part of Conwy County Council’s carbon neutral sustainability strategy.
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20MW Dorset solar farm gets green light

British Solar Renewables Ltd has announced it has secured planning permission for a 20MW solar farm close to Bournemouth International Airport.
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Opinion

Talking ten to the dozen

Daniel Silcock, operations manager, Renewable Solutions UK Q: Who is your hero in renewable energy? “I’d nominate Vincent Kirkman, my former tutor at BoltonCollege. I was an apprentice there between 1998 and 2002 and I learned a huge amount from Vinnie.  We’re now friends and I saw him again recently whilst installing solar PV, heat pumps, underfloor heating and rainwater harvesting at the College.” Daniel Silcock, operations manager, Renewable Solutions UK
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Opinion

Talking point

Question time: Liz MacFarlane, Zenex Solar, asks why it feels like the politicians keep pulling the rug from under our feet Well, where do I begin this month? From the high of Ecobuild to the low of the Chinese anti-dumping threat, it’s been an interesting time, says Liz MacFarlane.
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Opinion

Shift patterns

Search history: According to Cathy Debenham, YouGen, has seen a shift in consumer interest for renewables over the last year Cathy Debenham, YouGen, offers an insight into consumer interest in renewables over the last year. Although we run a renewable energy website, you wouldn’t have thought it in February last year. Virtually all the questions we were asked were about solar PV (or the Feed-in Tariff for solar PV). After the home page, solar PV was easily the most visited section of YouGen, with nearly double the monthly traffic of the next most popular section (biomass boilers).
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News

JPCS powers up 90,000 homes

Peter Shone, managing director of Cheshire-based JPCS JPCS reports that it has passed the 50MWp milestone in UK ground-mounted PV installations.
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News

Industry reacts to RHI delay

The industry has expressed its disappointment at the Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC)’s decision to further delay the introduction of the domestic Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI).
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Bosch end PV activities

Dr Volkmar Denner, chairman of the Bosch board of management Bosch has announced it is to discontinue its activities in crystalline photovoltaics and the manufacture of ingots, wafers, cells, and modules will be ceased at beginning of 2014.
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News

PV installers reminded of changes to MCS standards

February 2013 saw some major changes to the MCS standards for Solar PV installers with a new version of MIS 3002 and a new PV Installation Guide which replaces the 2006 Dti Guide.
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