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Product

Manufacturers facing a crisis of confidence in claims of energy saving performance

Manufacturers’ claims about the expected energy efficiency performance of equipment are not fully trusted by their customers. This was a key finding from new research released today by the Carbon Trust, which reveals that just 5 percent of professionals with responsibility for procuring energy consuming equipment for their organisations are very confident in the energy saving claims made by manufacturers, with a quarter (24%) not confident at all.
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News

Final opportunity to enter H&R Awards

Nominations are coming in thick and fast for this year’s Heating and Renewables Awards and this year’s ceremony is likely to break the record set last year of over 300 entries.
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Opinion

Q&A – Philip Hildrup

Philip Hildrup is sales director at Right2Impvoe REI: What you got planned for the rest of 2015? PH: The main focus for me for 2015 is to introduce one of our manufacturers’ new products – the Blueberry Smart Hub. It allows the customer to monitor, control and budget what they are spending on their heating and hot water. As a distributor of the Blueberry Smart Hub, we are able to not only provide the consumer with a great product, but it will also help us build a relationship with them by communicating via the hub to make further savings and tweaks.
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Opinion

Pollard’s patter

I am currently immersed in the Energy Related Products (ErP) directive. You may know that from 26 September it becomes mandatory for most heating devices to be ErP compliant and to carry an energy label. This includes air source, water source or ground source heat pumps. Furthermore, where a defined set of components are installed together, then there is a need for a ‘Package Label’ which could include a solar thermal device.
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Opinion

Two minutes with The STA

Who are you? Paul Barwell, CEO of the Solar Trade Association
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Opinion

Spring watch

MCS would like to take this opportunity to remind installers and manufacturers of the updated standards published in November 2014, and potential changes to the eligibility rules for the domestic RHI.
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Product

Daikin UK adds to drainback solar solution

Daikin has a new addition to its renewable range with a next generation hot water thermal store, providing optional drainback solar to the company’s Altherma air-to-water heat pumps.
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Opinion

Q&A – TSG

John Holloway is TSG’s renewables director
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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 – Consumer Credit Solutions

What have you got planned for the next 12 months? Our priority is to get more funders interested in financing solar PV and renewables technology. We already have a panel of lenders that are very enthusiastic supporters and we have another lender that’s about to participate in the market imminently. We also have a couple of negotiations underway that might result in further finance options for the solar sector, including the provision of second line lending aimed at underwriting consumers who may have failed finance through a primary lender.
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News

Kingspan appoints new sales director

Kingspan Environmental has announced the appointment of Neil Overton as trade sales director for Great Britain.
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News

OFTEC launch renewable registration service

Adrian Lightwood, OFTEC registration director OFTEC has introduced new classes of registration for solar thermal systems and heat pumps, with plans to extend this further to cover biomass next year.
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