Author Archives: Paul
A credit to you
There has been much criticism about the lack of credit available to small businesses and the banks have been bashed for not lending enough. However, Jeremy Malindine from renewable energy expert Puragen, paints a different picture SMEs do face the challenge of obtaining credit – whether it’s an established business that needs capital to help [...]
Fair share
R-ECO says it is the UK’s only co-operative installer of renewable energy systems. Claire Martin explains As a worker-owned co-operative, R-ECO creates meaningful and sustainable employment with every employee owning an equal stake in the business and having a say into how the business is run. This model is unique in the market place and [...]
At your service
Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service has installed solar panels Phoenix Renewable Technologies to the flat roofs of its headquarters building in Winsford Following an intense tender process and detailed design consultation Phoenix Renewable Technologies of Staffordshire were chosen to complete the project for the fire service. The installed system consists of 192 x Suntech STP245S-20WD [...]
Broadcast news
The Radio Two and Radio Six music DJ, Mark Radcliffe has joined the green revolution to install a biomass boiler system to heat his 200-year-old Cheshire farmhouse The 53-year-old who lives with his family at Whitley, near Warrington, turned to North Wales-based Carbon Zero UK for his new biomass boiler system. Gareth Jones, managing director [...]
UKAS unveils first Green Deal certification bodies
The United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) has announced the first batch of certification bodies for Green Deal installers and advisors. Organisations on the list will be able to grant qualified status under the Green Deal Advisor Certification Scheme to those who undergo training and satisfy relevant criteria. Qualified Green Deal advisors will make qualifying assessments, [...]
Trade associations raise concerns over commercial RHI
Four of the renewable industry’s trade associations have co-written a letter to climate change minister Greg Barker outlining concerns over elements of the commercial Renewable Heating Incentive (RHI). The Micropower Council, British Electrotechnical and Allied Manufacturers Association (BEAMA), Heat Pump Association (HPA) and Heating and Hotwater Industry Council (HHIC) have requested an urgent meeting with [...]
DECC hits back at Green Deal critics
The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has today issued a statement refuting comments made by Which? magazine which heavily criticises Green Deal. In an article on its website entitled ‘Government needs to green up its act’, Which? calls on the government to review plans for the project prior to its launch in October [...]
Renewables can halve effects of fossil fuel price hikes, claims report
A report commissioned by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has concluded that the UK’s climate change policies will reduce the impacts of future energy price spikes by as much as 50 per cent. The report, produced by Oxford Economics, points to how plans for carbon capture and storage, renewable electricity generation and [...]
STA herald FiT cut delay
The Solar Trade Association and other industry representatives have welcomed suggestions from senior ministers that the government may choose to delay the reductions to the Feed-in Tariff (FiT) expected on 01 July. The STA had previously written to energy minister Greg Barker appealing for a postponement to planned cuts to the current 21p/kWh domestic rate [...]
CCS competition frontrunners announced
The government has today published a list of all interested parties intending to apply to the UK’s new carbon capture storage (CCS) competition. The CCS Commercialisation Programme offers £1bn funding to the winning entry in a bid to accelerate the development of commercial scale CCS. The deadline for entries is 03 July and today’s list [...]
