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The Tamar View Community Centre in Plymouth is set for a solar makeover after a planning application was submitted to Plymouth City Council in order to gain permission to install solar panels on the centre’s roof.
Strategic Energy has completed 400 of a planned 700 solar installations for Manchester-based landlord, St Vincent’s Housing Association. The tenants living in the solar-clad houses will benefit from free renewable electricity while the landlord takes the feed-in tariff payments.
Bromsgrove District Council has given the green light to a solar energy scheme that will see solar panels installed on the council’s depot in Aston Road.
Glass manufacturer Pilkington has announced plans to cut production and axe up to 150 jobs at its St Helens-based factory. The company holds weak building product markets and a slowdown in solar energy glass responsible for the decision.
Liberal Democrat, MP Ed Davey has been confirmed as the new Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change after Chris Huhne this morning stepped down. The Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, announced the decision shortly after Huhne confirmed his resignation.
After the Crown Prosecution Service this morning made the decision to charge Energy Secretary, Chris Huhne, with perverting the course of justice; the cabinet member has decided to step down. Making a brief statement to press, Huhne said he deeply regretted the decision, and maintained his innocence.
A Herefordshire-based solar cooperative has had to put proposed solar projects on hold after Government’s feed-in tariff (FiT) review rendered the proposed projects unviable.
The Director of Public Prosecutions has this morning announced that the Energy Secretary, Chris Huhne, is to face criminal charges in connection with a speeding offence committed on March 12, 2003...
British Gas and Thames Water have combined to help their customers save money by encouraging them to use water and energy more wisely.
According to new research, conducted by independent analyst firm Verdantix, large UK businesses will increase spending on energy, environment and sustainability initiatives in the next four year. The market sizing and forecasting study, which analyses spending by 421 firms with UK revenues greater than £750 million, estimates that expenditure will grow at an average of 16 percent a year between 2012 and 2015.
