Guest Blog
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Key solar PV locations in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Competing with Cornwall on large-scale solar might be a challenge. Competing with Scotland’s first minister, Alex Salmond on wind energy may also be difficult. But finally, Scotland has entered the large-scale solar PV age.
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Sorting out a solar PV cowboy’s mess
When Exeter resident Mr Spencer had his solar PV system fitted nine months ago, he was looking forward to free renewable electricity, lowering his bills, and years of hassle-free feed-in tariff payments from the government.
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UK exceeds 0.5 GW PV demand in Q1’13, grabs almost 10% global share
The UK is forecast to be the fifth largest PV market globally during quarter one of this year.
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Updated MCS Guide: Shading implications for design
Chris Laughton, Managing Director at the Solar Design Company, takes a detailed look at the impact of the new MCS guide on shading calculations.
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Automatic tariff degressions – on the right track?
One of the key financial policy measures introduced as part of the FiT reviews last year was the automatic degression of solar PV feed-in tariffs, linked to national installation targets being met.
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Government’s green agenda just empty promises
On the day of the launch of government’s flagship Green Deal, Paul Williams from Freetricity gives a personal perspective on the coalition’s environmental commitment.
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The future of solar
There seems to be a bit of a dichotomy around solar energy in the marketplace at the moment. On the one hand, research suggests that consumers want more solar solutions with a recent YouGov survey saying that 72% of respondents still favoured solar power. But on the other hand, deployment figures seem to suggest that people aren’t opting for solar.
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Weighing up the benefits of solar: environmental or financial?
More than a third of people think making money is not as important as protecting the environment and would install solar PV panels, even if there was no financial benefit.
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The £125 million Green Deal kick start will do more harm than good
Another week and another knee jerk reaction from The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC). Faced with the prospect that take up of Green Deal home improvements could be as low as 1.5 percent DECC – which would much prefer to be just plain DE – has panicked and promised to throw £125 million at householders in an attempt to ‘kick start’ the program.
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Subsidies in the energy sector – setting the record straight
Many people aren’t aware that subsidies have long been part of the energy sector. We started having subsidies for fossil fuels a long time ago, and we still have them today.
