The requirement to fit a DC isolator in a solar PV system comes from BS7671 – Part 712.537.2.1.1, which states “To allow maintenance of the PV convertor, means of isolating the PV convertor from the d.c. side and the a.c. side must be provided”…
I was encouraged to see the government’s recent commitment to legally binding emissions targets, including policy to encourage renewable generation. However, all these technological changes will put an immense strain on our national grid. In order for the network to cope with the strain, careful investment is needed.
The UK solar industry’s worst fears have today been realised as Government ploughs ahead with its proposed feed-in tariff cuts. Paying absolutely no attention to industry’s kicking and screaming, the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has kept to its original plan and imposed ridiculously reduced rates of…
Following on from last week’s Green Investment Bank announcement, the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has today published an array of papers designed to summarise the intricacies of, and reassure UK homeowners about, the Green Deal. After fears that the ‘greenest Government…
The Government’s Climate Change Committee is having its John and Yoko moment. Summoning the world’s press to its bedside, the Committee announced that the UK should renounce fossil fuels…in favour of nuclear power. The report was actually supposed to be about renewable energy. In reality, it turned out to be just a veneer for bringing nuclear back into the game.
Yesterday afternoon I was lucky enough to be part of a one-off solar power-themed school assembly in Surrey with special guests Rio Ferdinand, Gary Lineker, Dale Winton, Simon Cowell, Graham Norton, Jimmy Carr and David Attenborough…
According to research conducted by renewable energy website YouGen, there’s a lot of confusion amongst UK residents about the export of solar electricity to the national grid. Reportedly, customers who have installed solar panels are unsure about how the export payments work, and so-called help lines are just making matters worse.
In Shanghai just now … at an IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) TC82 – Solar PV energy standards meeting. More delegates than I have ever seen at these meetings.
