News
Energy bills cut at the expense of ECO
The government has today confirmed plans to reduce energy bills by cutting, or watering down, a number of green levies.
News 80
News
AP Mitchell launches Futureproof Green Deal network
The Futureproof network, developed by AP Mitchell, aims to enable gas heating engineers to grow their businesses by allowing them to draw down Energy Companies Obligation (ECO) funding and access Green Deal finance.
News
UK sets new 6GW wind record
National Grid has confirmed that a record-breaking amount of electricity was generated by wind power in the UK last Friday (29 Nov) – achieving more than 6GW for the first time.
News
Vergnet Joins Forces with Wind Turbines UK
Medium scale wind manufacturer Vergnet has joined forces with Wind Turbines UK – a Manchester-based company assistsing farmers and developers through every phase of a medium wind energy project.
News
Sinclair Meadows wins national award
Not-for-profit housing provider, Four Housing, is celebrating success after its flagship carbon negative development – built by Galliford Try – won a national construction award.
News
REA heralds AD FiT review pledge
Climate change minister Greg Barker has confirmed that DECC will launch a review of the Feed-in Tariff (FIT) for small scale anaerobic digestion (AD) in January. The AD industry has been calling for a review because the policy as currently designed will trigger a tariff reduction for small scale AD in April, even though hardly any plants have actually been built at this scale.
News
Solfex signs SolarEdge distribution partnership
Solfex Energy Systems, part of the Travis Perkins Group, has announced a new supply partnership with SolarEdge Technologies to distribute its range of power optimisers, inverters and monitoring solutions.
News
Kensa scoops regional award
Kensa Engineering has been named Business of the Year at the Western Morning News Awards.
News
The kids are alright
Plumb Center is helping to develop the next generation of Scottish footballers, by donating £750 to Hillwood Boys Club.
News
Simple Power gives Rural Support
Simple Power chief executive Philip Rainey pictured with Melissa Wylie from Rural Support, as they launch the charities first ever ‘Christmas Hamper Scheme’
Wind energy company, Simple Power, has teamed up with Rural Support to launch the charity’s first ever ‘Christmas Hamper Scheme’, aimed at helping farming and rural families in need this festive season.
News
CCS shortlisted for national award
Andy Wallace, CCS
Finance provider Consumer Credit Solutions (CCS) has been shortlisted for a Construction Marketing Award (www.cmawards.co.uk) in the ‘Best Professional Services Campaign’ category, alongside its agency MRA Marketing.
News
Record-breaking year of growth for UK wind
A new study commissioned by RenewableUK TO assess the state of the wind industry from July 2012 to June 2013, reveals a step change in the offshore wind sector.
News
Specflue rated alongside Marks & Spencer and Waitrose
Specflue says it has just completed the most in-depth study of customer satisfaction levels in the firm’s twenty-one year history.
News
3sun Group appoints renewables director
3sun Group has appointed Andrew Elmes as renewables director.
News
Shadow climate change minister visits SBC
Plumb Center’s Tim Pollard shows shadow climate change minister Jonathan Reynolds MP round the Sustainable Building Centre (SBC)
The new shadow climate change minister Jonathan Reynolds MP has praised the work of Wolseley UK’s Sustainable Building Center (SBC) in a visit to Leamington.
News
Greg Barker opens new lab for Oxford PV
Greg Barker is shown a sample of glass with OPV’s energy-generating coating by founder Kevin Arthur and chief scientific officer Dr Henry Snaith
Climate change minister Greg Barker visited Oxford Photovoltaics’ HQ at Begbroke Science Park earlier this week to launch the new fabrication and test facilities.
News
It’s renewables friday
Everlasting Marketing & PR’s managing director Babak Daemi
Manchester-based Everlasting PR & Marketing is urging the renewables industry to adopt its #RenewableFF initiative on Twitter.
News
REA strikes back at Cameron renewables smear
The REA has called on the government to set the record straight on renewable investment following media reports that the prime minister referred to green levies on energy bills as ‘green crap’.
News
UK Green Investment Bank unveils green policies
The UK Green Investment Bank (GIB) has today published, for the first time, its green investment policies. The bank has written to key stakeholders to invite their feedback.
News
Renewables industry welcomes call for Pickles to support renewables in new homes
The REA and STA welcomes today’s Environmental Audit Committee report ‘Code for Sustainable Homes and the Housing Standards Review’, which criticises the government’s lack of progress and ambition on ensuring all new homes are ‘zero carbon’ by 2016.
News
Worcester, Bosch Group opens new Northern training centre
Worcester, Bosch Group has opened a brand new training facility in Normanton, near Wakefield, to provide better support and an improved training experience for installer, specifier and merchant customers based in the North of England.
News
Ecobuild announces new research partnership with BRE
BRE has been selected as the official Research and Innovation Partner of Ecobuild, taking place at London’s ExCeL from 4 to 6 March 2014.
News
Nottingham PV project breaks crowdfunding records
Nottingham’s largest solar power project has broken records by raising £500,000 from 337 people in just under a month.
News
EA Technology Wind Power Forum makes UK debut
EA Technology has launched an independent forum to explore and address asset management issues within the on and offshore wind power sector.