Solar Media Staff

Corporate Strategist Oliver Rothschild has joined the board of Bluesky, an aerial surveying company based in Leicestershire. Rothschild will help complement Bluesky’s green agenda in his role as Non-Executive Director through his experience in a variety of industries and diverse range of business interests.

During winter the average price of gas will rise by 17.4 percent with electricity rising by 10.8 percent. The price hikes are conveniently timed to correspond with the nation’s peak demand; however, a significant proportion of UK residents are willing to forgo heating this winter in an attempt to save money.

Renewable energy firm, Stiebel Eltron UK, has reported strong trading results for the first nine months of 2011, with turnover up by 41 percent on last year. The firm reported that turnover had increased by 100 percent for October against the same period in 2010. A strong year of sales and expansion into new sectors are being attributed as the main cause behind the growth.

Despite the fact that many others are throwing in the solar power towel due to feed-in tariff cuts, North East-based OPUS Green is ploughing ahead with its £1.9 million contract with Your Homes Newcastle (YHN) to install solar PV on over 30 of the housing blocks the company manages.

The Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) is the latest of a growing number of organisations to express concerns over the proposals to cut solar feed-in tariffs (FiTs) in half.

UK housing maintenance provider Mears Group will reportedly cease solar installation activity as a direct result of the proposed feed-in tariff cuts.

MCS001 has now been updated and published as a revised version 2.0. The Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS) has revised some of the paragraphs to better align common requirements and to help shed light on the intent of some of the clauses.

Shoreline Housing Partnership, Grimsby’s largest social housing landlord, has been forced to abandon a £30 million scheme which was set to install over 3,300 solar PV systems on homes in North East Lincolnshire as a direct result of Government’s feed-in tariff cuts.

The recently-announced Government proposals to cut the feed-in tariffs for solar power by more than 50 percent on December 12 threaten the development of a £12 million photovoltaic development program in Westminster. The council’s scheme was designed to help tackle fuel poverty, particularly as some areas…

Wholesale electricity prices have been predicted to rise by at least 40 percent over the next ten years, according to a survey of 71 leading industry figures.