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L-R Lord Karan Bilimoria, Paul Hutchens, managing director of Eco2Solar and Shalini Khemka, chief executive of E2Exchange (award sponsors).
Kidderminster businessman and Eco2Solar managing director, Paul Hutchens, has been named ‘Midlands Entrepreneur of the Year’ at the 2013 Midlands Business Awards.
A record amount of electricity has been generated by wind energy in Great Britain, according to National Grid.
Richard Martin joins the Green Energy team as head of marketing
Energy efficiency consultancy, Green Energy has bolstered its team by recruiting a head of marketing and an office administrator.
NAPIT is the latest organisation to throw its support behind Green Deal, which was officially launched last Monday (28 Jan).
Agreed in the week that the government’s flagship energy saving scheme went live, Toriga reports that it is delighted to be the first Green Deal Provider to officially sign a Green Deal Plan with a UK homeowner. As part of its exclusive partnership with Travis Perkins plc, all materials for the project will be provided by the Group.
Following recent approval by Pembrokeshire County Council of the Port’s plans for a solar array system, the Port of Milford Haven is now seeking competitive proposals for the complete development, construction and start-up of a single 5 megawatt utility scale solar photovoltaic energy power plant (PVS) at Liddeston Ridge, Milford Haven.
Former energy minister Chris Huhne has stepped down as an MP after pleading guilty to perverting the course of justice.
There are only four days to go until Solar Power UK kicks off its roadshows at Sandown Park Racecourse, Surrey.
Anesco ceo Adrian Pike
The government should be applauded for its Green Deal scheme and the lasting financial and environment benefits it will bring, according to the boss of energy efficiency firm Anesco.
UFW Ltd has signed an exclusive partnership with Swedish wind turbine specialists ecWind.
Ecolution Products has launched a new e-commerce website giving PV installers and other customers 24 hour access to its products.
The government’s forest policy statement has been welcomed by Back Biomass Campaign.
More businesses and homeowners in the UK are turning to renewable energy than ever before, according to the latest edition of the Renewable Energy Roadmap published by energy secretary Ed Davey.
The Roadmap shows that renewable energy output increased by 27 percent between July 2011 and July 2012, and now more than 10 percent of all energy created is coming from renewables.
And ministers from the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) will be at Ecobuild 2013 to further discuss green initiatives.
HETAS has become the first organisation to successfully map biomass assessments against National Occupational Standards (NOS). This means that biomass installer training will be available through HETAS’s nationwide network of approved training centers, some of which are approved with the National Skills Academy for Environmental Technologies.
Renewable energy provider Enevis has welcomed the launch of the government’s Green Deal, which aims to help homeowners cut costs and carbon emissions.
According to organisers UBM, addressing the environmental impact of the world’s cities is top of the agenda at Ecobuild 2013.
A renewable energy developer says it has revised the scale of its Quixwood Moor Wind Farm project in keeping with its commitment to working in partnership with local communities in the Scottish Borders.
Higher Knapp Farm, near Taunton, has recently become one of the latest farms in Somerset to rent out a small percentage of its land to solar power generator, Lightsource Renewable Energy.
Green energy company Triodos Renewables started the new-year with the erection of two new wind turbines at Eye, Suffolk. The Eye project is Triodos Renewables’ ninth renewable energy project, and the fourth that’s been developed on a brownfield site.
12 months since installing its first Vergnet wind turbine, a North Yorkshire renewables company is reporting that its UK fleet is surpassing expectations.
Green Deal Provider InstaGroup has held several training sessions last week for its national Snug Network of installers at The Energy Centre, based at Solarwall’s offices in York this week.
A heating installer from Devon has been ordered to pay almost £3,500 by Barnstaple Magistrates Court for offences including the misuse of the HETAS logo. Warren Emo, trading as Fired Up, pleaded guilty to all three charges which included giving a customer incorrect advice on the installation of woodburning stoves.
The Working Well Together campaign, a partnership between The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) and the construction industry, has organised a half-day event at Reid Kerr College, Paisley to specifically address the issue of working safely when involved in solar PV/Thermal installation.
Renewable energy project developer, TGC Renewables, has secured planning permission for a 3.48MW solar project near Hayle, Cornwall.