Category Archives: Products
Optimising results
Apex Energy says its new voltage optimisation (VO) unit provides up to 20 per cent savings in energy. Designed and manufactured in the UK, the company adds that the VO unit is maintenance free, easy to install, reduces a household’s carbon footprint and can protect and extend the lifespan of domestic appliances from over voltages. [...]
GB-Sol gets ahead of the game
GB-Sol says it roof-integrated mounting system already meets MCS’s new standards – MCS012 – which will become compulsory for manufacturers in 18 months time. The South Wales-based company adds that all its products have been tested to levels above and beyond those required by MCS both in regards to wind uplift and rain penetration. Bruce [...]
Hot property
Nu-Heat has launched its largest hot water cylinder to date to be used with heat pumps – the EnergyMaster HP540. With a capacity for 542 litres, solar and non-solar models are available which, according to the company, are designed for use in larger properties with multiple bathrooms or commercial uses. Nu-Heat adds that each coil [...]
No holes barred
Power Nation has officially launched a system its says is ‘leak free’. Offering complete install kits boasting no gaskets or Viton O-rings, the company says its leak-free solar thermal system advances the plumbing side of a thermal installation for piping runs of DN16, DN20 and DN25. The solar rated fittings form a metal-to-metal self-seal that [...]
Beating the drought
Kingspan Renewables says that its introduction of rainwater harvesting systems has come at the right time with several regions of the UK experiencing hosepipe bans. Kingspan Water’s Rainstore is a range of large water storage tanks, in a granite-look finish, each featuring a built-in tap, diverter kit, submersible pump and hosepipe connection. The Rainstore comes [...]
Improved perfection
Kingspan Renewables says it has followed up on the success of its Varisol modular solar thermal collector by launching Varisol HP. Retaining all aspects of the original design, including simple ‘click-fit’ tubes and high performance polymer materials, Varisol HP has an added benefit of a temperature limitation device in the condenser for system protection. According [...]
Megger’s mega irradiance meter
Megger says its new PVM210 solar irradiance meter is unique by having the solar detector on top of the instrument. According to Megger, this arrangement, combined with the useful measurement hold function, makes the PVM210 easy and convenient to use – even with just one hand – when working on a sloping roof or at [...]
Keeping your balance
Sibert Solar has announced a new distribution agreement with Eltek-Valere to stock its THEIA range of grid-tied Solar PV inverters. The company says that inverters are available for single and three-phase installations, with or without high-frequency trans-former topology. Sibert adds that with exceptionally high peak (and EU) efficiency levels, multiple string inputs, in-built web-server (HE-t [...]
Feel the heat in Salford
The University of Salford, working with Envirolink and the Institute of Infrared Thermography, are offering a series of professional training courses providing an understanding of the principles of thermography and how to best use this approach to inspect and accurately interpret the performance of buildings. The course providers say that infrared thermography, when operated by [...]
Buy one get one half price with BRE
BRE has announced that for those who book to attend its latest renewable technologies course, they will get another place at half price. On May 2, the company will be running its ‘Renewables for Building Designers’ course at its Watford centre featuring: Key information on how best to use renewable energy technologies effectively and economically [...]





