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Plumb Center publish new commercial guide
Plumb Center’s guide to commercial plumbing, heating and renewables is back – bigger than before.
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DECC unveils domestic RHI proposals
The Department of Energy and Climate Change has today published consultation documents for the introduction of the domestic Renewable Heat Incentive.
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Windfalls over windfarms
Wind-to-heat: Pioneering scheme moves closer to reality
The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has issued a call for evidence aimed at ensuring communities hosting wind turbines derive maximum financial, social and environmental benefits.
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New designs for a circular economy
The government is to invest up to £1.25m to stimulate innovation that will help improve the resource efficiency of UK companies and help contribute towards a resource efficient, low carbon economy.
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Housebuyers give solar the thumbs up
A Burnley company has praised UK house buyers for giving solar panels the thumbs up in a survey on “non-essential” property extras.
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Libra partners with Canadian Solar
PV distributor Libra Energy has announced it is now in partnership with Canadian Solar as an authorised reseller and will add Canadian Solar’s product range to its own portfolio.
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Profit crisis brews in China
Growing numbers of Chinese PV manufacturers are downgrading sales forcasts and shedding staff as profits continue to fall sharply in the Far East.
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Public support riding high for renewables
Wind and marine trade association RenewableUK has welcomed the publication of a new government survey which indicates that public support for wind energy remains overwhelmingly high.
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Cash boost offered to low carbon SMEs
Small enterprises looking for a financial boost to aid the development of innovative, low-carbon business ideas can now apply for an award from Shell Springboard.
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PM backs ‘virtual power station’ scheme
Prime minister David Cameron opens a 12.65kW PV installation at Eynsham village hall, Oxfordshire
David Cameron has thrown his weight behind an ambitious scheme to replace one of the most polluting power stations in the UK with a loose collective of renewable installations and energy-reduction initiatives.
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Good Energy publishes ‘encouraging’ financial results
Green electricity provider Good Energy Group Plc has published financial results for the six months ending 30 June 2012 showing a rise in revenues and profits.
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YouGen founder shortlisted for green energy award
YouGen founder Cathy Debenham
A Devon-based woman has been shortlisted for the south west sustainable energy champion award in the annual SW Green Energy Awards.
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Another UK first for solar
Solar plant developer Lighthouse Renewable Energy Ltd has completed a 5MW project near Wisbech, Cambridgeshire in conjunction with PV installers Solarcentury.
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Mercy mission to Malawi
Absolute Solar and Wind has donated £1,000 to help fund the charitable work of 17-year-old Mercy McFarlane of Conon Bridge, Inverness.
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Wind breaks record
New figures from the National Grid show that a record-breaking amount of electricity was supplied from wind sources to the grid on Friday 14th September.
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Support for gas power criticised
The government’s own climate change advisors have hit out at support levels shown by ministers for the continued use of gas in the UK’s future energy mix.
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Maximise your share of the energy efficiency market
SummitSkills and Rushlight Events have announced a series of business seminars focusing on the green agenda.
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Last chance to respond to RHI consultation
Ben Halfpenny, a specialist lawyer in the Dickinson Dees Energy Team
A leading energy legal firm has called on the government to deliver certainty to investors as the consultation period comes to close on proposed changes to the non-domestic RHI.
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Enphase signs UK distribution deal
Enphase Energy has announced the availability of its Microinverter System at PV distributor Dynamic Solar.
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REA responds to Vince Cable industry speech
Business, innovation and skills (BIS) secretary Vince Cable has set out his vision for the future development of the British economy.
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REA criticises RO proposals
REA chief executive Gaynor Hartnell
The Renewable Energy Association (REA) has waded into the row over new consultations from the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) over future support levels for solar and biomass under the Renewables Obligation (RO).
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Green Deal interactive countdown begins
Do you want to become an accredited installer for Green Deal and understand the financial opportunities for you when government legislation comes into effect in October 2012?
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Lords to investigate EU energy decarbonisation
How can the push for green energy be made consistent with pulling the EU (and the UK) out of the current economic mire? That is the fundamental question at the heart of the House of Lords Agriculture, Fisheries, Environment and Energy EU Sub-Committee’s new inquiry, EU energy: decarbonisation and economic competitiveness, launched today.
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RO cuts not justified, says STA
The Solar Trade Association has criticised the government’s proposals for the Renewable Obligation branding a planned 25 percent reduction in support for solar as ‘unjustified’.