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  • Future Renewable Energy partners with Easy MCS Ltd

    16 May 2012, 16:10 Updated: 16 May 2012, 17:13

    Future Renewable Energy has partnered with Easy MCS Ltd to offer support and renewable heat training to UK-based installers.

  • Co-Operative Bank pledges £300m for UK renewable energy projects

    15 May 2012, 11:24 Updated: 15 May 2012, 12:35

    At a time when many solar companies are worrying about their financial situation, the Co-Operative Bank has pledged to provide approximately £300 million in loans for UK renewable energy projects throughout 2012.

  • New Renewable Energy Capital team will support UK project developers

    15 May 2012, 10:55 Updated: 15 May 2012, 12:01

    Financial and professional services firm Jones Lang LaSalle has recently launched a new Renewable Energy Capital team to help raise capital and provide commercial and financial advice for UK renewable energy project developers.

  • Ofgem: 95 percent of RHI applicants turned away

    01 May 2012, 10:27 Updated: 01 May 2012, 11:41

    Ofgem, the administrator for the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme, has revealed serious problems with the application process after initial figures show that 95 percent of all applicants are returned.

  • Doncaster firm offers to match energy grant scheme pound for pound

    30 April 2012, 09:23 Updated: 01 May 2012, 14:35 | Comments (1)

    Yorkshire-based Greenbuy Energy has announced a new scheme that could see local residents benefit from huge savings on their energy bills.

  • New learner manuals released for solar installers

    26 April 2012, 15:15 Updated: 26 April 2012, 16:20

    The National Skills Academy for Environmental Technologies (NSAET) has produced a series of new learner manuals to help solar installers. The new manuals will allow installers of both photovoltaic and thermal systems to acquire the background knowledge required to install, commission, service and maintain solar equipment. 

  • World Energy Council, Bloomberg New Energy Finance to work together on new energy survey

    25 April 2012, 15:43 Updated: 25 April 2012, 16:48

    The World Energy Council (WEC) and Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) have recently signed a partnership agreement to develop of a survey on the costs of new, renewable and conventional energy technologies. The study builds on the WEC’s existing Survey of Energy Resources.

  • Clean Energy Ministerial: the story so far

    25 April 2012, 11:18 Updated: 25 April 2012, 15:28 | Comments (1)

    This morning ministers from around the globe gathered in London for the third Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM3). Meeting to discuss international co-operation on low-carbon energy, and ways of encouraging businesses to invest in greener technologies, CEM3 is designed as a stepping stone to reaching binding carbon targets.

  • REA: UK renewables industry supports 110,000 jobs

    23 April 2012, 12:45 Updated: 23 April 2012, 14:35 | Comments (3)

    New research published by the Renewable Energy Association and Innovas reveals that the UK’s 12.5 billion renewables industry supports 110,000 jobs across the supply chain and could support as much as 400,000 jobs by 2020.

  • ECS cardholders gain renewable skills through JIB, NSA partnership

    19 April 2012, 12:20 Updated: 19 April 2012, 14:50

    A recently signed partnership between the Joint Industry Board (JIB) and the National Skills Academy (NSA) means that all Electrotechnical Certification Scheme (ECS) cardholders training for Environmental Technologies can now be endorsed with renewables skills.

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