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Wood Heat Association becomes REA affiliated

The Renewable Energy Association (REA) will today welcome the newly formed Wood Heat Association (WHA) as an affiliate trade association. The announcement will be made later this morning by REA chief executive Dr Nina Skorupska and the WHA’s Neil Harrison at the All-Energy Exhibition & Conference in Aberdeen.

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Mitsubishi Electric sign Ebbsfleet shirt deal

(L_R) Dr. Abdullah Al-Humaidi, Chairman of Ebbsfleet United; Steve Fleming, National Sales Manager, Mitsubishi Electric; Peter Varney, Vice Chairman of Ebbsfleet United Mitsubishi Electric has announced a new sponsorship deal with Ebbsfleet United which will see the Conference South team wear the company’s logo on their shirts next season.

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Vergnet launches UK O&M service

French wind turbine manufacturer Vergnet has announced the opening of a dedicated UK Operations and Maintenance (O&M) service for the UK market.

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Plumb Center joins forces with EasyMCS

Plumb Center has teamed up with EasyMCS – which will put installers looking to take advantage of the domestic RHI in touch with relevant certification bodies.

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Heating industry unites over GAHP inclusion in RHI

SEA chief executive Dave Sowden Leading heating industry stakeholders (Heating & Hotwater Industry Council, Sustainable Energy Association, UKLPG, Baxi, British Gas, Calor, Robur, Viessmann and Worcester Bosch) have joined forces to support the inclusion of gas absorption heat pumps (GAHPs) in the non-domestic Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) under the upcoming formal review of the scheme.

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Windhager increases training dates

Windhager UK has announced new training course dates in response to increased demand for biomass installations.  

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Ecotricity saves Evance from administration

Evance’s R9000 turbine model Green electricity provider Ecotricity has bought small wind turbine manufacturer Evance out of administration.

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DECC proposes solar RO scrapping

DECC has proposed closing the Renewables Obligation (RO) to 5MW+ solar farm applications from April 2015.

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Dimplex A-Class impresses in field trials

Dimplex reports that its A-Class air source heat pump has consistently outperformed the Heat Emitter Guide to deliver ‘outstanding’ results in a series of field tests.

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UK tax break boosts renewable street lights

Hit by a 30 percent increase last month in carbon tax prices under the CRC (Carbon Reduction Commitment), councils should be considering renewably-powered street lights as a cost effective alternative, writes freelance contributor Cristina Brooks The government hopes to use increased tariffs under the CRC to encourage councils to cut emissions the way it already uses EU ETS for industry, meeting national carbon emissions reduction goals.

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4Eco joins forces with Mark Group

Jodi Huggett, director of 4Eco – immerSUN 4Eco has announced a new sales partnership with Mark Group.

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Glow-worm teams up with ADEY

Glow-worm has teamed up with ADEY Professional Heating Solutions to encourage installers to fit a MagnaClean Professional2 with all Glow-worm boilers.

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BSS expands national distribution centre

BSS Industrial has broken ground on 38,500 sq ft extension of its Magna Park National Distribution Centre (NDC) in Leicestershire.

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Launch party

Following the launch of the Domestic RHI, MCS looks forward to supporting all concerned in making the most of this great opportunity and world’s first incentive scheme connected to the generation of renewable heat at the domestic property Registration of Domestic RHI (DRHI) installations is done through the Ofgem website https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/domestic-rhi.