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Solar cheaper than gas by 2018 – STA

The Solar Trade Association has published a report which finds that it will be cheaper to produce electricity from solar than by burning gas by 2018.

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Innasol launch industry accreditation scheme

Silvio Spiess, founder and CEO of Innasol Innasol has announced the launch of what it says is the renewable heating industry’s first accreditation programme, the Innasol Certified Partner Programme.

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DECC launch £10m community fund

Energy secretary Ed Davey has unveiled £10m fund to boost the deployment of community renewable energy projects.

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Thermodynamic boss named as top entrepreneur

Alistair Smit with Dragons’ Den investor Piers Linney Alistair Smit, managing director of The Magic Thermodynamic Box Company, has been voted as one of the top five entrepreneurs at the National Business Awards.

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Wind industry creates thousands of UK jobs

The number of people working in the medium and large-scale sectors of the British onshore wind industry, and offshore wind, has risen by 8 percent in just over twelve months to more than 15,400 direct, full-time jobs, according to the trade association RenewableUK.

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4Eco signs infrared partnership

4Eco has announced a strategic partnership with Herschel Far Infrared Heaters. The new agreement will see the two companies share R&D insight, customer feedback and product innovation.

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Social landlords receive d-RHI boost

Changes to the domestic Renewable Heat Incentive mean that from Spring 2015 Registered Social Landlords will no longer be required to have a Green Deal Assessment in order to apply for the RHI scheme.

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Time running out for roadshow early bird discount

There is now less than a week left to join some of the biggest names in the industry and benefit from the Heating & Renewables Roadshow early bird discounted rates.

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STA to back DECC community energy push

The STA is set to revise its ’10 commitments’ on solar farms to support DECC’s push for increased levels of local ownership.

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Daikin UK to kick of CPD seminar series

Daikin UK technical expert Martin Passingham Daikin UK is inviting building services engineers and engineering consultants to attend one of its CPD-accredited HVACR seminars in November.

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Rural Energy co-hosts biomass seminar

Rural Energy in partnership with South East Wood Fuels is inviting guests to a day of seminars and roundtable discussions at The Keep, East Sussex’s new records centre in Brighton, on Tuesday 18 November 2014.

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4Eco gets TV treatment

4Eco’s immerSUN microgeneration switching device has been featured in Channel 4’s Double Your House for Half the Money.

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City Plumbing Supplies launch renewable staff training

City Plumbing Supplies has announced the launch of a new internal ‘Renewables Training Programme’, to provide colleagues from across the Travis Perkins Group with greater knowledge of renewable technologies now available in the UK.

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Plumb and Parts Center in charity cash boost

Plumb and Parts Center’s Sean Collins and Tim Broadhurst with Tanya Knapper from Scott’s Little Soldiers and Marie Bawden from Castel Froma Plumb and Parts Center has presented cheques to two life saving charities.

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PM opens BPEC training centre

Prime minister David Cameron visited Oxford Energy Academy in Witney on Friday 10 October to officially open the new BPEC accredited Apprentice Training Centre.