Solar Media Staff

Any solar installer will tell you that roof hooks and roof tiles have a notoriously difficult relationship. Often it is hard to install the former without damaging the latter. A new shock absorbing roof tile, HookStop, has been specifically designed from the ground up to improve the durability of solar PV arrays.

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.

The Government must provide greater certainty in energy policy to help investors boost growth and provide secure low-carbon power, the CBI Deputy Director-General has warned.

The European Commission has given the go-ahead for the creation of the long-awaited Green Investment Bank after ruling that it would not fall foul of EU state aid rules.

Lewes District Council’s Wave Leisure centre is a particularly high user of energy, as such, the council was keen to investigate ways in which it could reduce the centre’s electricity bills.

Millions of strawberries grown in two farms in Cambridgeshire are now being cooled and prepared for sale using energy generated from 400 solar panels.

Molecular Solar, a spinout company from the University of Warwick, has been able to achieve and demonstrate a record voltage for organic photovoltaic cells (OPV). The company has developed OPV technology capable of producing cells with open-circuit voltages in excess of 4 volts for the first time ever.

The Guardian is reporting that the four most senior Coalition figures – David Cameron, Chancellor George Osborne, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg – have called an emergency meeting with energy secretary Ed Davey to address a number of energy policy issues that have been threatening to boil over in the last few weeks and jeopardise the UK’s long-term energy strategy.

The UK’s Solarcentury is to donate £35,000 to charity SolarAid’s ‘Share a Light’ campaign.

The Solar Schools project, launched by carbon cutting organisation 10:10 in conjunction with Mumsnet, has unveiled its improved website and toolkit as it continues its work with schools across the UK.