Blogs

Energy secretary Amber Rudd proposed to end solar thermal subsidies yesterday as part of a wide-ranging overhaul of the RHI. Liam Stoker discusses how the government now only appears willing to support technologies that sit ‘just right’, regardless of how inconsistent that approach appears.

Finlay Colville, head of market intelligence at Solar Media, discusses why 2016 is Scotland’s year for solar PV.

From Leonardo DiCaprio’s Oscar-winning speech to the chief of the UK’s top energy lobbying group, a cleaner, greener message is now being told. But is it breaking through the smog?

As the solar industry continues to settle into the post-FiT announcement market, Jodi Huggett from 4eco explains why she thinks 2016 will be the year of self-consumption.

Manufacturers and distributors are offering many different forms of training in energy storage installation for residential and small commercial level all over the country. Just taking a quick look at what’s available, names as diverse and well known as inverter makers SMA and Solax, domestic storage manufacturer and energy management specialist Wattstor, distributors like Krannich, Waxman and Wind & Sun have all been offering or will offer dedicated training events in battery storage installation this year.

The UK looks set for the arrival of energy storage in a big way this year. While high profile entrants such as Tesla are generating headlines, several energy storage systems have been deployed already on a commercial basis using a novel storage technology – the saltwater battery.

As the Hinkley Point C project suffers another bad week, David Pratt takes a look at the latest stumbling blocks to have hit the nuclear project and what solar can do to grow in the time it may take to deliver the project.

Energy secretary Amber Rudd has once again refused to divulge details of the government’s secretive inter-ministerial Clean Growth group, despite repeated requests from opposition ministers. Liam Stoker asks why.

The feed-in tariff cuts announced in December forced many firms across the country into a race against time to complete installations ahead of the 14 January deadline. David Pratt finds out how housing provider Gentoo managed to complete more than 700 installations in time for the cut-off.

Late on Friday afternoon, the Department of Energy and Climate Change released a document detailing how the government has done to keep consumers bills down. Liam Stoker finds five ways the government has done precisely the opposite.