Solar Media Staff

Energy efficiency specialist Eco-Nomics has been invited to join the advisory board of BASE London – the annual event that addresses London’s low-carbon objectives.

Local energy co-operative Community Energy Warwickshire has financed its second solar PV project, combining with Eco2Solar to install a 50kWp solar array on Warwick Hospital.

During his first announcement as the new Energy and Climate Change Secretary; Ed Davey this morning launched a new offensive on cutting energy waste. Following in his…

With just two days to go before Government announces the results of the feed-in tariff consultation: phase 1, Friends of the Earth (FoE) has urged the new Energy Secretary, Ed Davey, to announce steps to safeguard the 29,000 solar jobs “currently threatened by disastrous Government proposals to reform the solar subsidy scheme.”

To mark the beginning of National Apprentice Week, Opus Energy has announced the launch of a bespoke NVQ Apprenticeship Scheme.

Caroline Flint, the Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, today warned that “a new energy industrial revolution beckons, and our country must embrace it without delay,” during a speech to the Aldersgate Group, a coalition of environment agencies, NGOs, think tanks and industry representatives.

A recent study conducted by A Shade Greener has found that by installing solar panels a typical family in the UK could be saving on average of more than a third on their energy bills. The study, based on actual householders' energy usage after installing solar panels, has shown that electricity bills were on average reduced by 37 percent.

A new report from research firm IHS has found that success in the global inverter market dipped slightly in 2011 due to feed-in tariff cuts in several leading solar markets. The PV Inverters: Surviving the Storm report states that despite long-term growth prospects, shipments of PV inverters last year fell to the equivalent of 23.4GW, down 1 percent from 23.6GW in 2010.

The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has published its final estimates of UK greenhouse gas emissions for 2010.

Birmingham Airport has enlisted the help of npower to install a 50kWp solar array on the roof of its terminal.