Sector skills council SummitSkills is urging businesses to take part in the Microgeneration Certification Scheme’s (MCS) competence requirement consultation.

The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) will be presenting Retrofit Solutions for Non-Domestic Buildings 2012 conference in September which, it says, will bring together the retrofit supply chain to overcome some of the challenges associated with retrofitting the buildings in which we work.

Climate change minister Greg Barker has today announced a number of measures which pave the way for Green Deal’s planned launch in October.

Ombudsman Services has been appointed by the Department Of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to handle complaints about this scheme. Chief ombudsman Lewis Shand Smith said: “The Green Deal is a new concept to householders. Consumers taking up the Green Deal can be confident that if something goes wrong they will have easy access to independent and effective redress. We already provide the ombudsman service for the energy (supply and network) industry and its customers, to it makes sense for complaints about Green Deal providers to come to us. We’re looking forward to working with DECC on the details of the scheme.”

China’s inaugural Ecobuild exhibition has been hailed as a success by its organisers having attracted more than 15,000 visitors between 9 – 12 April.

GB-Sol has announced that its roof-integrated mounting system, which already meets MCS’s new MCS012 standard, has been used to develop testing systems designed to ensure that PV roof kits are completely watertight.

Enact Energy has launched a package designed to enable local authorities to offer residents a way of benefiting from Green Deal.

Ardenham Energy’s Neil Lawson Responding to yesterday’s  statement by energy minister Greg Barker MP on the proposed budget for the Renewable Heat Incentive, Neil Lawson, head of renewable heat at Ardenham Energy said: “These are artificial mechanisms conceptualised in an ivory tower. The Treasury is seeking to control a budget at all costs and DECC is responding with a tsunami of destruction throughout the RHI industry.

The consultation on the competence criteria project being undertaken by MCS has now been launched.