Solar Media Staff

The National Trust has been awarded this year’s Gold Award at the annual Ashden Awards. Now in its twelfth year, the Ashden Awards are designed to champion practical, local energy solutions that cut carbon, protect the environment, boost economies and improve people’s lives in the UK and developing world.

Kingspan Insulated Panels has become the first manufacturer of insulated metal cladding systems to be certified by the Carbon Trust Standard.

South Downs Solar has completed a discreet 43.94kWp solar installation at the University of Brighton in Sussex.

Bignell Park Farm, a 300-acre estate in Chesterton, Oxfordshire is now benefitting from several solar PV systems, installed on buildings and land throughout the estate.

UK-based solar distributor Save Energy Group has expanded its product portfolio through its latest partnership with CIS thin-film module manufacturer Solar Frontier.

Leeds-based installation company Eclipse Solar has signed a major advertising deal that will see the company’s message displayed across the pitch side LED boards during Rugby Super League games on Sky Sports, Fox Sports, and the BBC.

Mace Midlands has partnered with IBC Solar to design and install a unique East West-facing solar array on the company’s headquarters in Burton-on-Trent.

French PV specialists, Mobasolar are set to help expand Samsung’s solar presence in Europe after signing a distribution agreement covering France, Switzerland and the United Kingdom for the South Korean’s PV modules.

MoneySupermarket has had a 48.88kWp solar array fitted to its headquarters in Flintshire. The £90,000 installation was installed free-of-charge by iGen Energy Ltd, as part of a power purchase agreement.

The International Energy Agency has compiled a special World Energy Outlook report on the use of unconventional gas. The report states that exploiting the world’s vast resources of unconventional natural gas holds the key to, what it calls, “a golden age if gas.”