Hampshire-based Hive Energy has begun consulting on proposals to install a 25MW solar park in Suffolk. The proposed solar park will span 160 acres of farmland in the village of Hacheston and produce enough energy to supply 25,000 homes with carbon-free energy.
UK-based solar module manufacturer Romag and renewable energy installer House Choice have celebrated the 11,000th PV installation completed as part of their three-year partnership.
The Abrahams family have been harnessing the power of the sun for three generations to help them grow grain, rape and bean in the countryside of Saffron Walden.
Ed Davey, the Energy Secretary, has revealed that Britain’s climate change policies could help halve the negative impact of spikes in global oil, gas and coal prices in the UK by 2050.
Research published by the National House Building Council (NHBC) and Zero Carbon Hub has revealed that new homes built to current regulations cost 55 percent less to run than typical ‘upgraded’ Victorian homes.
The UK solar industry has welcomed this morning’s confirmation that the Department of Energy and Climate Change’s (DECC) will delay the next round of feed-in tariff cuts. Some of industry’s most influential spokespeople have come out in support of the move, which means cuts due to go ahead on July 1 will now be delayed.
According to the 2012 Annual Report on Fuel Poverty Statistics the number of households in fuel poverty is beginning to decrease. The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has today published data results for England in 2010, and an estimated level of fuel poverty in the entire UK in 2010.
