Solar 28

Product

NSC gathers pace

The National Solar Centre continues to ramp up its activities and outputs, reports Steve Pester, BRE
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Opinion

Making the most of RHI

Although much attention has been placed on the level of installations which will be supported by the domestic RHI, legacy applications can also be made until 09 April 2015, explains Robert Burke, HETAS
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Feature

Sector reacts to non domestic RHI changes

The extension of the non domestic RHI (phase two) also see significant increases to tariffs for GSHPs (from 4.3p/kWh to 8.4p/kWh), large biomass, solar thermal and deep geothermal, which all come into effect this week.
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News

Shadow chancellor visits Prestige Solar

Ed Ball, shadow chancellor, visited Prestige Solar in Chatham, Kent earlier this month to discuss the implementation of Green Deal and affordable heating in local communities.
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News

Half price cylinder training with Worcester

Worcester, Bosch Group is offering half price training to support those installers keen to take advantage of its new Greenstore range of high efficiency unvented cylinders.
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News

Wood Heat Association becomes REA affiliated

The Renewable Energy Association (REA) will today welcome the newly formed Wood Heat Association (WHA) as an affiliate trade association. The announcement will be made later this morning by REA chief executive Dr Nina Skorupska and the WHA’s Neil Harrison at the All-Energy Exhibition & Conference in Aberdeen.
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Product

Cotswolds Seeds unveils grass mixes for solar farms

Specialist grass, legume and forage seed merchant Cotswold Seeds has launched a range of grass mixes for solar farms, designed to enable farmers to use the land for grazing as well as benefiting the environment and helping mitigate the visual impact of the solar panels.
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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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