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The government must remain committed to launching the Renewable Heat Incentive next year if it is to achieve its targets in reducing carbon emissions, is the message from Daikin UK’s managing director Peter Verkempynck.
The deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has announced a new £100m green investment fund.
The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has announced the scrapping of 86 regulations plus 48 regulatory regimes in its efforts to cut red tape and bureaucracy.
Air Products has today announced plans to build and operate the world’s largest advanced gasification renewable energy plant in the UK.
Plumbing and heating merchant PTS has made the most of a Green Deal Awareness Course being offered to installers by the company’s training partners PPL.
Energy management event Energy Solutions has announced its line-up of speakers for its free to attend CPD accredited educational programme.
As reported in the Guardian, the government looks set to launch a national communications campaign promoting the planned October launch of Green Deal.
BASIC members help install panels at a home in Lockleaze, Bristol
The Bristol Area Solar Installers Co-operative (BASIC) has installed its first panels on a scheme in Bristol.
News that Sainsbury’s has become Europe’s largest operator of solar PV has been greeted by Friends of the Earth.
Knowledge provider and conference organiser Solarpraxis is to hold an event promoting quality standards in solar PV.
The Office of Fair Trading’s (OFT) report on the future operation of the home insulation market has been welcomed by the government.
SolarTech has announced the design and installation of PV systems for 17 schools in Shropshire in an initiative designed to generate upto 600,000 kWh of electricity per year.
EcoSkies has organised a second Green Deal Evening following overwelming demand for its first.
The Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Association (ADBA) and the Renewable Energy Association (REA) have thrown their weight behind The Renewables Event – to be held on 11-12 September.
Octopus Investments has pledged its commitment to the UK renewable energy market despite today’s decrease in the Feed-in Tariff for solar PV.
The team behind the PURE assisted OVESCO project at Harvey’s Brewery, Lewes
PURE, the Clean Planet Trust, says its latest funding round for low interest community energy loans is open to new projects until 17th August 2012.
A two day European Conference on Sustainable Renovation of Buildings will be held from 13-14 September in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Today’s reduction in the Feed-in Tariff (FiT) for PV should not detract from the bigger picture, say members of the industry.
RES Inbuilt, the consultancy division of renewable energy developers the RES Group, has earned recognition for one of its projects.
Kenneth Thom, of Barclay Erskine celebrates the company’s 150th anniversary
Glasgow-based heating company Barclay Erskine has joined forces with Worcester Bosch Group to celebrate its coming of age.
With the launch of Green Deal due this Autumn, the organiser of the Renewables Roadshow says that members of the industry could miss out on the opportunity unless they attend one the exhibitions.
The Solar Trade Association (STA) has calculated returns of 9.8 percent for domestic customers under the new 16p Feed-in Tariff rate which kicks in tomorrow (1st August).
The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has published a summary of the UK’s energy statistics for the year 2011.
Sustainable Building Solutions, part of the Travis Perkins Group, has developed a series of LABC registered animations that detail how to build within efficiency regulations using traditional building methods.