Alistair Smit with Dragons’ Den investor Piers Linney
Alistair Smit, managing director of The Magic Thermodynamic Box Company, has been voted as one of the top five entrepreneurs at the National Business Awards.
The number of people working in the medium and large-scale sectors of the British onshore wind industry, and offshore wind, has risen by 8 percent in just over twelve months to more than 15,400 direct, full-time jobs, according to the trade association RenewableUK.
4Eco has announced a strategic partnership with Herschel Far Infrared Heaters. The new agreement will see the two companies share R&D insight, customer feedback and product innovation.
Ecotricity has launched a multi-media campaign to celebrate wind power in the UK.
NICEIC and ELECSA’s Live South event has been shortlisted for five national and industry awards.
Jim Wallace of Seaward Solar looks at the reasons why electrical testing and inspection of solar PV installations is a fundamental requirement for system safety and performance.
Hitachi has appointed a new distribution partner for its Yutaki range of air source heat pumps.
Changes to the domestic Renewable Heat Incentive mean that from Spring 2015 Registered Social Landlords will no longer be required to have a Green Deal Assessment in order to apply for the RHI scheme.
The Heating & Renewable Awards will return in 2015 bigger than ever before.
There is now less than a week left to join some of the biggest names in the industry and benefit from the Heating & Renewables Roadshow early bird discounted rates.
The renewable industry’s trade body in Scotland has called on the next UK government to launch ‘Green Bonds’ – which would allow savers to generate returns on the growth of the green sector.
Steve Pester, BRE, reflects on the main themes to emerge from last month’s Solar Energy UK show in Birmingham
Gordon Moran, writing for the European Energy Centre (EEC), examines recent political party conference pledges ahead of the 2015 general election
By guest columnist Bill Wright, head of energy solutions, Electrical Contractors’ Association
Zenex Solar’s managing director Liz macFarlane
Liz MacFarlane looks back at an eventful SEUK 2014 for Zenex Solar
Bob Long, MD Eco Innovate Ltd
Heat pump expert Bob Long tackles unnecessary complexity in heat pumps and the systems in which they operate
Plumb Center’s head of sustainability Tim Pollard
As the world of technology continues to accelerate at pace we are constantly bombarded by new developments, even in terms of language. The latest concept to excite some people is the ‘Smart’ or ‘Connected Home’.
It has been a good year for the heat industry with the arrival of the much anticipated Domestic RHI. However, a topic which a lot of installers have been contacting us about is metering; When is metering needed? Who is allowed to install it? And where does it need to be installed?
Robert Burke, HETAS, analyses the latest release of RHI statistics
Who are you?
Stephen Knight, commercial director for Navitron
What have you got planned for the next 12 months?
Our priority is to get more funders interested in financing solar PV and renewables technology. We already have a panel of lenders that are very enthusiastic supporters and we have another lender that’s about to participate in the market imminently. We also have a couple of negotiations underway that might result in further finance options for the solar sector, including the provision of second line lending aimed at underwriting consumers who may have failed finance through a primary lender.
The STA is set to revise its ’10 commitments’ on solar farms to support DECC’s push for increased levels of local ownership.
Grant UK says it has made it even easier to store the fuel used by its Spira condensing biomass boilers and reduce fuel costs even further by introducing the Grant Wood Pellet Store.
The future of renewable energy in the UK looks bright, says Green Energy Scotland