Category Archives: Features

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

It would be fair to say that the recent announcement that the full Renewable Heat Incentive is to be put back until summer 2013, did not receive a rapturous applause from the renewables industry. Hidden amid the Heat Strategy and up against the news that the Renewable Heat Premium Payment was to have a second [...]

With the dust finally settling on the government’s vision for the Feed-in Tariff (FiT), Paul Stephen speaks to Dragons’ Den star Deborah Meaden about the continued attractiveness of investing in PV There are few people more qualified to pass judgment on the financial credentials of renewable energy than business woman and BBC TV’s Dragons’ Den [...]

The government’s recent decision to cut the Feed-in-Tariff (FiT) has rocked the renewables sector and questioned the very sustainability of a booming industry, says Rupert Higgin, managing director of The Green Electrician. He takes a look at the way ahead and whether now is the time to take a more holistic view of energy management [...]

Former Solarcentury chief executive, Derry Newman, has launched a parting shot at the UK’s largest energy firms for their reluctance to embrace renewable electricity generation The 54-year-old, who stepped down in April to spend more time with his wife and children, has been candid in his criticism of the UK’s major energy suppliers for ‘fighting’ [...]

Thomas Farquhar, Easy MCS, explains why he thinks the future is looking bright for renewables On March 26th, Greg Barker the climate change minister announced the delay we had been expecting on the introduction of the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI)  for domestic properties. Due to commence in October this year, it has now been delayed [...]

The proposal to allow DIY firms’ own assessors to conduct EPC assessments as part of Green Deal and then push their own products was always likely to raise concerns over putting profits before customer protection. But is this something that the industry can regulate? Paul Stephen reports With Green Deal for domestic properties still on [...]

Kyle Harris, an installer with Cleaner Air Solutions, describes his route into PV installations and why he enjoys working where he does. Following a period of unemployment, due to an injury, 23 year old Kyle Harris, secured a job with Cleaner Air Solutions. He began his solar installation training at the Renewable Energy Academy run [...]