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The UK has pledged £720m to the Green Climate Fund, to assist developing countries transition to low carbon economies.
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.
PassivSystems is celebrating the milestone achievement of installing over 20,000 versions of its PV monitoring product – PassivPro.
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.
Energy secretary Ed Davey has unveiled £10m fund to boost the deployment of community renewable energy projects.
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.
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.
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.
Ecotricity has launched a multi-media campaign to celebrate wind power in the UK.
NICEIC and ELECSA’s Live South event has been shortlisted for five national and industry awards.
Hitachi has appointed a new distribution partner for its Yutaki range of air source heat pumps.
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.
The Heating & Renewable Awards will return in 2015 bigger than ever before.
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.
The renewable industry’s trade body in Scotland has called on the next UK government to launch ‘Green Bonds’ – which would allow savers to generate returns on the growth of the green sector.
The STA is set to revise its ’10 commitments’ on solar farms to support DECC’s push for increased levels of local ownership.
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.
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.
Staff at Innasol have cycled over 490 miles across five days to raise money for East Anglia Children’s Hospices (EACH).
Lightsource is predicting a significant rise in Scottish PV deployment following recent innovations in cell technology.
4Eco’s immerSUN microgeneration switching device has been featured in Channel 4’s Double Your House for Half the Money.
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.
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.
Prime minister David Cameron visited Oxford Energy Academy in Witney on Friday 10 October to officially open the new BPEC accredited Apprentice Training Centre.