Prescient Power, a renewable energy firm based in Leicestershire, has just completed the National Trust’s largest ever solar project, two years after the company formed. Helping the National Trust to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels by installing a range of solar installations at six of its properties in Wales, the team scooped the contract after a competitive tender process.

The Green Electrician has announced a new joint venture with Milford Haven Port Authority in Pembrokeshire with an aim to improve access to energy efficient technologies for homes and businesses throughout South Wales.

As energy secretary Ed Davey, said, the legal defeat in the Supreme Court would “draw a line under the case”, industry leaders and commentators gave their reaction to the end of a sorry saga for his government department.

According to the Easy FiT Reg Co, every solar panel installer knows that until the final Feed-in Tariff (FiT) registration paperwork is completed and submitted, their customers cannot claim their tariff payments.  Unfortunately, this task is somewhat tedious, and does not always receive the attention it deserves; sometimes, the five day deadline for registration after installation completion is missed, causing customer dissatisfaction.

The Supreme Court has today rejected an appeal bid by the Department of Energy and Climate Change over cuts to the Feed-in Tariff scheme for solar PV.

Many of Ecobuild’s largest exhibitors have heralded this year’s three day exhibition as a major success.

Milton Keynes-based installers Renewable Resources Ltd has completed roof-mounted PV arrays at 115 Sainsbury’s stores across the South of England.

SolarCentury chairman Jeremy Leggett has poured cold water on the case for new  nuclear power stations. In a debate on the UK’s future energy needs held as part of Ecobuild’s seminar series, Leggett outlined a three point argument for why solar PV is better placed than nuclear to plug the 25GW gap predicted to occur by 2020 as coal-fired power stations are taken offline. He said: “As of last year, the Germans have a target to run their railways on 100 per cent renewable energy. Solar and wind back each other up very well which the Germans have done on scale and proven to its satisfaction. Secondly, in Japan, 52 nuclear reactors have been turned off out of 54 and the lights have not gone out due to involuntary and voluntary demand management. “Finally, our average selling price globally has come down 40 per cent whilst last year the industry grew 67 per cent when nuclear is shrinking. “Nuclear costs $1.7 a watt to generate in China and anything up to $4 elsewhere so I don’t know how people have the nerve to talk about subsidies for renewables.” He added: “The closer we get to grid parity, the dirtier they (the nuclear lobby) will fight. “Our costs are coming done while their’s are going up.”

Ploughcroft is expanding its national team with the appointment of 25 new staff.