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Opinion

Talking point

Zenex Solar’s managing director Liz macFarlane Liz MacFarlane, Zenex Solar, demonstrates how long term planning will see off short term challenges
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News

Dulas wins £4.3m PV contract

Dulas Ltd has been awarded a £4.3m contract by housing association First Wessex to install solar PV on up to 1,000 of its affordable homes across the south of England.
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News

Waxman partners with TiSUN

Waxman Renewables is delighted to announce a new distribution agreement with the Tyrolean solar thermal company TiSUN.  As from October 2013 Waxman Renewables will become the exclusive distributor for TiSUN products in England, Scotland and Wales.
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Product

Encraft unveils online PV tool

Encraft’s Web Applications team announces the launch of a new MCS compliant Solar PV tool within its online Gateway. 
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Product

Winaico develops new WST module series

Taiwanese solar module manufacturer Win Win Precision Technology has developed the new WINAICO WST-series of solar modules to support its customers special projects. 
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News

Myriad Solar plans Leicestershire PV open day

Myriad Solar is planning two ‘talk and tour’ seminar sessions at Eye Kettleby Lakes, Leicestershire, later this month – so other local businesses can see for themselves the benefits renewable energy can bring.
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News

STA predicts solar thermal price drop

Research recently published by the Solar Trade Association (STA) indicates that the prices of solar hot water systems could come down by 29.2 percent if the market expands tenfold to catch up with solar PV.
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Opinion

Living on the edge

Laid bare: The power optimisers of the SolarEdge system, installed behind each panel, are designed to increase energy output from PV systems by constantly tracking the maximum power point of each module individually As the first UK renewable energy installer to fit the new SolarEdge PV energy optimisation system, Michael Winstanley of Cheshire-based renewable energy installer The Greener Group gives the lowdown on how it is boosting the output of underperforming PV arrays
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Opinion

The generation game

Steve Pester, BRE, looks at how energy storage is rapidly growing in importance and how we can harness this fledgling technology
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Opinion

Talking point

Zenex Solar’s managing director Liz macFarlane Liz MacFarlane, Zenex Solar, reveals how working within the industry has changed her perception of renewable energy
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Opinion

Q&A – David Bassie, Mastervolt

Q: What have you got planned for the rest of 2013? We will complete the field test of our brand new residential storage system and have it certified so that we can put it on sale. The system is based on our tried-and-tested marine combi range, of which more than 10,000 units are already in operation. It contains our own Li-ion battery with an integrated battery management system and is able to be retrofitted to existing solar plants without the need for the inverter to be replaced. We are also completing our SunMaster ES series with a 2.2 kW and 3 kW models.
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News

ReneSola and Lightsource sign 69.5MW deal

ReneSola has today announced it has signed a series of agreements to provide Lightsource Renewable Energy with 69.5MW of solar modules for installation on solar farms in the UK.
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News

HIES launch new finance package for installers

The consumer protection organisation the Home Insulation & Energy Systems Contractors Scheme (HIES) has negotiated a special arrangement with several major finance companies. This finance facility allows HIES renewables installers to provide home owners with the best point-of-sale credit deals available in the market place.
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News

Heat pump solutions from Dimplex

Chris Davis, business development director for Dimplex Renewables, considers a number of points installers should know about air source heat pumps to capitalise on a growing market for them in the wake of the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) announcement
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News

Daikin UK supports up-skilling scheme for unemployed

Daikin UK has welcomed a new Jobcentre Plus scheme to help unemployed installers back into work. The programme, designed in partnership with the National Skills Academy for Environmental Technologies, is designed to provide out of work plumbers, heating engineers and electricians with an opportunity to learn new ‘green’ skills. This should make them more employable in a job market open increasingly to those trained in renewable energy systems.
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News

Viessmann return to Energy Efficiency Exhibitions

Viessmann is presenting its renewable heating and domestic boiler ranges at all six Energy Efficiency Exhibitions this year (Exeter, September 10; Coventry, September 12; Newcastle, September 17; Edinburgh, September 19; Surrey, September 24; Manchester, September 26).
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News

Amicable solution found in EU-China PV dispute

The imposition of large anti-dumping tariffs on Chinese PV products imported to the EU looks to have been averted after the European Commission endorsed a minimum pricing offer from Chinese manufacturers.
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Product

Shade analysis at the touch of a button

The Solmetric Suneye (available in the UK from Wind & Sun) now includes updated software to enable MCS shade diagrams to be produced quickly and accurately.
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Product

Worcester enhance Greenskies range

Worcester, Bosch Group says it has improved its existing Greenskies Solar-Lito and Solar-Lito Mini collectors to offer installers wider installation flexibility.
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