Category Archives: Features
What’s the incentive?
With the Renewable Heat Incentive set to come into play in October this year, the RHI Premium Payment scheme is now available to those wishing to take advantage of the scheme in the interim period, Neil Schofield, head of external and governmental affairs at Worcester, Bosch Group, gives an insight into how the scheme can [...]
Something old, something new
A Danfoss heat pump is helping reduce fuel costs and provide heat at a recently renovated country cottage. A Nottinghamshire couple who have created their dream home in the leafy parkland close to Lord Byron’s family seat at Newstead Abbey are enjoying the benefits of heat pump technology from Danfoss Heat Pumps UK. Pamela and [...]
Driving forces
Tony Staniforth, specification sales director, Kingspan Renewables looks at the drivers that will help boost heat pump uptake. Since the announcement of the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) in March, air source heat pumps have been a contentious topic in the renewables industry. Whilst their omission from the RHI’s first phase is disappointing, it is important [...]
Sunny delight
The halving of the Feed-in Tariff does not mean the sun going down on solar PV, argues Mark Elliott of Energeno. It was Harold McMillan who coined the phrase: ‘You’ve never had it so good’ in relation to full employment during the 1960s. Putting aside the scare stories of the potential solar PV job [...]
One site, one solution
Solar thermal systems are now regarded as a key part of the microgeneration market. No longer is it a niche offering – it is now established and very much accepted throughout the heating and hot water industry. Contractors must now look towards complete, integrated systems and adopting a one-stop shop approach to gain the greatest [...]
Fluid funds
Noel Shapton, Hydratech, provides a review of high performance fluids for solar thermal installations whilst conveying some facts and dispelling a few myths associated with solar fluids. In solar systems significantly higher demands are made of the fluid compared to geothermal and air source. Stagnation and boil-off within solar panels exert tremendous thermal stress on [...]
Wet wet wet
The residents of Talybont-on-Usk splashed out on a community hydro system and the results have been considerable. The projects has helped fund a range of iniatives including a cinema screen in the town hall. Talybont-on-Usk has its own community-owned hydro. All the energy generated is sold into the grid to produce income that is [...]
Glowing report
Ground or air? For a homeowner considering installing a heat pump, what exactly do you need to know? Heat pump expert Nu-Heat, explains Types of heat pump A ground source heat pump is the most efficient of the heat pump family as it has the highest Coefficient of Performance (ratio of units of heat output [...]
Here comes the sun
The Cotswold Energy Efficient Centre (CEEC), has been installing renewable energy systems throughout Gloucestershire for over five years. The company boasts an impressive showroom and having picked up five national renewables awards in five years, really does know its stuff. The company’s Andy Buchan outlines the merits of solar thermal. A solar thermal hot water [...]
Top advice
The benefits of solar PV are becomingly increasingly well-known. But with the myriad of companies out there extolling the virtues of this technology, it can be hard to know what’s really important. Ploughcroft offer some pointers to the consumer thinking about solar PV. Ploughcroft has years of experience in the solar and renewable energy [...]
