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Waxman calls for customer confidence
Renewables distributor Waxman is urging customers to remain positive about the financial attractiveness of solar PV.
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REA concurs will select committee report
The Renewable Energy Association (REA) says that a report released today by the Environmental Audit Committee reinforces the organisation’s own calls to prioritise green investment.
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Fair share
R-ECO says it is the UK’s only co-operative installer of renewable energy systems. Claire Martin explains
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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
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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
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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Renewables Roadshow confirms visitor attractions
The Renewables Roadshow will return this Autumn with a host of demonstrations and seminars from industry experts.
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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.
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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.
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DECC to review planned FiT cuts
The UK’s solar industry has applauded the decision by Energy Ministers to review the next round of cuts to the Feed-in Tariff.
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Future Renewable Energy form partnership with Easy MCS
Future Renewable Energy has partnered with training provider Easy MCS with the aim of sharing its experience with other installers considering using renewable heating technologies.
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The Oil & Renewable Show heats up….
The Oil & Renewable Energy Show (ORES) continues to attract exhibitors from both oil-fired and renewable backgrounds with over two-thirds of floor space now sold out.
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College unveils first solar offering
City College Plymouth has responded to the growing demand for low carbon courses by announcing that its first cohort of students will be undertaking the Installation of Small Scale Solar Photovoltaic Systems course.
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Leading heat pump companies call for fundamental regulatory reform to enable 6.8m heat pumps by 2030
Eight leading companies in the UK heat pump sector have today jointly set out a vision for how industry and government can achieve a radical decarbonising of residential heating in the UK by 2030.
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STA calls on energy minister to delay FiT reduction
The Solar Trade Association (STA) has written to energy minister Greg Barker asking for a delay to the government’s planned reductions to the Feed-in Tariff (FiT) expected on 01 July.
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NHBC Foundation welcomes EPC revisions
Sustainability research body The NHBC Foundation has welcomed the Department for Communities and Local Government’s (CLG) decision to revise domestic energy performance certificates (EPCs).
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Hot under the collar
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 phase, how is the industry viewing the delay? Lu Rahman reports
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Enter the Dragon
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 investor Deborah Meaden.
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Miliband attends biomass project opening
David Miliband has attended the unveiling of the latest biomass installation in his South Shields constituency.
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Sustaining the renewables industry
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
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Departing Newman fires final salvo
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