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Product

Samsung aligns with Solfex

Solfex Energy Systems has announced it is now stocking the full range of SAMSUNG EHS Mono Heat Pumps and accessories as well as providing the necessary technical support and design service.
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News

Updating the industry

As you may be aware, one of our main priorities at MCS is to ensure that the technical standards are still relevant for each technology. Since the scheme’s launch, there have been major updates to solar PV technologies for both products and installers. It was concluded that the current associated PV Installer Guide required extensive updating to reflect current products and installation techniques. In light of this, the MCS Solar PV Working Group has undertaken a major project to comprehensively update the DTI Guide for PV Installations, and to ensure the MIS 3002 Solar PV Installer Standard is aligned with the measures introduced in this document.  Some of the requirements in the existing version of the standard will be included in the new Guide.
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News

Scheme of success

With the raft of new technologies aimed at reducing bills and energy usage, the government is aiming to get close to two million installations in place by 2020, so there is a big market there for any installer company looking to get involved, says MCS.
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News

Engensa boss scoops MT Sky award

Toby Darbyshire, co-founder and ceo of Engensa, has won the Start-Up Star category of the MT Sky Future Leaders Awards.
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Opinion

Q & A – Canadian Solar

REI: What have you got planned for the rest of the year? SQ: We expect to gain further market share as we deliver reliable, high-performance PV solutions, and expand sales of our high efficiency ELPS modules in key solar markets. And we will expand our total solutions business. Canadian Solar will also continue to invest in R&D for promising technologies and in our sales and business partner network to create and support trustworthy, long-term relationships.
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Opinion

Integrating expertise

BRE held the 3rd in its series of Building-Integrated Solar conferences in October: BIPV3 – Separating Fact from Fiction. Building-integrated PV is a small but rapidly expanding niche within the solar industry, which we at BRE passionately believe is the future for PV on buildings.
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Opinion

Cheaper panels lead to price-driven buyers

Positive push: Jason Hobbins, EnergyMyWay, says we should be urging customers to think beyond price when investing in solar PV Jason Hobbins, managing director of EnergyMyWay discusses the hazards of a solar price war
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News

Winners of renewable heating scheme announced

44 social housing projects have today been awarded a share of £3.2million by DECC to get renewable heating into the homes of over a thousand  social housing tenants across Great Britain.
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Product

Theory of evolution

Solar tracker manufacturer Mechatron has launched the dual axis system ‘D170 evolution’ which it says follows the sun azimuthally (around its vertical axis) and elevationally (around its horizontal axis), making investments in PV plants profitable even without subsidies.
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News

Solar damages claim swells to £50m

Prospect Law, the legal team spearheading a campaign to recover losses incurred by PV firms during the Feed-in Tariff debacle, says its demand for compensation has reached £50m.
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News

Mage Solar expands strategic partnership

In future, Mage Solar will be managing its warehousing and transport activities across the globe with its logistics partner Kuehne + Nagel German-based provider of PV system components Mage Solar has announced it will be managing its warehousing  and transport activities across the globe with its logistics partner Kuehne + Nagel.
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News

Fronius gets active in energy efficiency

Fronius International has opened the Active Energy Tower at its Austrian HQ which it says is completely heated and cooled without generating any CO2 emissions whatsoever.
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News

Train and gain

Raising the roof: Flue and chimney supplier Specflue will now offer heat pump and solar thermal installation courses from its training centre in Sudbury Flue and chimney supplier Specflue has announced the launch of its new solar thermal and heat pump courses for installers.
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News

Lark Energy completes 3.4MW solar farm

Bird’s-eye view: Lincolnshire-based Lark Energy has led construction of one of the largest solar farms in East Anglia at Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire Lincolnshire-based Lark Energy, alongside Posolia UK and Oakapple Renewable Energy, has completed the construction of a 3.4 MW solar farm in Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire – one of the first major PV plants in the region.
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News

In the post

Great support: 8,520 SOL-F anchor posts have been deployed on PV arrays across ten IKEA UK stores SFS intec’s SOL-F anchor posts have been used to secure 39,000 solar panels across ten IKEA UK stores.
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Product

Seaward in the frame

Seaward Solar has produced a new video demonstrating the effectiveness ot its PV150 dedicated solar PV tester.
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News

Och aya renew

Plumb Center is to open what it says is Scotland’s first renewable training academy.
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Product

Cutting costs

Upsolar has unveiled its smart modules optimised by Tigo Energy.
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