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.
The 366-acre St Agnes Island, which forms part of the Scilly Isles, has seen a record number of solar PV installations fitted over the last five months by Penzance-based solar PV company, Plug into the Sun.
Power and automation giant ABB, has invested close to £1 million and signed a 10-year agreement with Imperial College London to support a new carbon capture pilot plant teaching facility located at the university’s central London campus.
As mortgage complications have become apparent with the ‘rent-a-roof’ scheme; a popular and accessible method of upgrading domestic properties with solar panels is under threat. With April’s installation figures indicating a considerable decline in domestic solar installations, the market has clearly been affected by the March feed-in tariff (FiT) deadline. However it’s not all bad news, as the absence of the ‘Free Solar’ outlet presents an opportunity for new and further evolved finance options to step forward. This article will explore the most prominent of these new approaches.
SMA Solar UK has launched two new transformerless inverters in the UK solar market. Complementing its Sunny Boy product range, the inverters feature 97 percent efficiency and have been designed as a more flexible alternative to SMA’s classic Sunny Boy 2500/3000 and Sunny Boy 2500/3000HF inverters.
After an uncomfortable few weeks in office, the Prime Minister David Cameron has spoken of the need for the UK to embrace clean energy both domestically and globally as he provided opening remarks to delegates on the second day of the Clean Energy Ministerial being held in Central London.
