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L to R, BPEC chairman Frank Glover, BPEC Charity award winners Martin Biron, John booth, Stephen Dobney, Lee Firth & Master of the Worshipful Company of Plumbers Charles Yuill
Training and certification provider BPEC says it has donated almost £30,000 to charities which use plumbing to enhance life.
Tim Pollard of the Plumb Center addresses last week’s parliamentary reception
Plumb Center has launched an initiative to highlight affordable measures that most households could install to help reduce their utility bills.
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.
In the frame: Worcester, Bosch Group’s system cleansing video is available to installers via the company’s YouTube channel and website
Worcester, Bosch Group has released a new video to help installers emphasise the benefits of system cleansing to their customers.
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.
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.
Clear signal: Greater Manchester’s Horwich Parkway Railway Station has halved its carbon emissions with an 11kW wind turbine
England’s largest railway station wind turbine has begun operating significantly cutting carbon emissions at Horwich Parkway.
Renewable energy business network ecoConnect has announced a nationwide call for innovators in green technology to come forward for Cleantech Innovate.
The award recognises the ‘sustainable results’ associated with a new wood fuel system at Heathrow’s new terminal 2 building. The 10MW CHP system will open later in the year and serve T2 once it opens in 2014. The biomass plant will also provide base heating and electricity to terminal 5.
Enact Energy has been recognised for the work it is doing in Cornwall and the South West after being shortlisted for an award at the South West Green Energy Awards.
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.
The government has announced that cash back will be available to householders in England and Wales who make energy saving home improvements under the Green Deal, from January 2013.
The Renewable Energy Association has welcomed today’s report from Imperial College London which argues that carbon pricing on its own is not enough to attract adequate investment in renewables.
Down the line: Jonathan Selwyn (front) and colleagues from Lark Energy pictured when PV panels were installed on the roof of Southfield House in 2010.
In 2010, housebuilder and developer Larkfleet Group installed PV panels on the roof of its HQ building in Bourne,Lincolnshire. Two years later, the company says it is producing more electricity that predicted.
The government has announced the launch of a £40m competition aimed at encouraging local initiatives to increase energy efficiency, reduce fuel poverty and drive collective switching and purchasing.
A carbon reduction consultancy has stepped forward to criticise the government’s intention to offer cash back to early adopter of Green Deal.
The government has announced that upto £1,000 cash back will be offered to homeowners in England and Wales who sign up to Green Deal.
DECC is offering the chance for innovators in energy storage to be given cash to develop their ideas.
The Renewable Energy Association has set out 10 key demands which it says will make Electricity Market Reforms planned by the government work.
Energy secretary Ed Davey has moved to assure business leaders that the government will provide certainty to potential investors in the nation’s energy generating capacity.
Plumb Center is to open what it says is Scotland’s first renewable training academy.
Big Society Capital’s ceo Nick O’Donohoe
PURE – the Clean Planet Trust, a carbon reduction charity, has announced it has secured a £1 million investment from Big Society Capital, which it says will enable PURE to fund up to 70 community energy projects, marking a significant milestone in its efforts to deliver a £7 million income boost to deprived communities across the UK.
The Department of Energy and Climate Change has responded to a call by Which? for an independent review into the rising cost of domestic energy bills.
The Yearsley Group’s site in Newark
The UK’s largest cold food storage provider, The Yearsley Group, says it has made impressive savings in electricity bills due to its PV installations.