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After the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) last week announced plans to equip 30 million UK homes and small businesses with smart meters by 2019, British Gas has rolled out its most advanced offering to date.

Energy and Climate Change Minister, Greg Barker, this morning told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme listeners that Britain should increase its carbon emissions target to 30 percent – as long as the rest of Europe follows suit.

The Michael Hall School in East Sussex has reinforced its strong eco-values by installing a 30kWp solar PV installation.

Housing association Havebury has embraced solar technology, installing solar panels at two if its sheltered accommodation schemes, as well as the company’s own headquarters.

The National Fruit Show has announced that M3 Solar will be sponsoring the Marden Fruit Show Society Annual General Meeting on March 28. As the prize sponsor M3 Solar will be offering the winner either a 4kW domestic solar array or £10,000 towards the cost of a 50kW system.

The Isle of Wight has benefited from the installation of a 1.6MW solar park near Newport, one of the largest power plants on the island.

Alternergy, one of the UK’s largest solar PV distributors, has been crowned top of the Investec Hot 100 thanks to its rapid growth in the burgeoning solar market.

Research from uSwitch.com has revealed that almost 4 million UK households are currently in debt to their energy supplier. The annual report shows that those indebted to energy companies owe, on average, £131 – a 4 percent rise from last year’s levels.

Green Planet Solar has completed a 42kW solar PV array on a rural farm in Oxfordshire. The Banbury-based farm had long been an advocate of renewable energy technologies and had decided to invest in a solar PV array to generate carbon-free electricity for consumption on-site.

The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has announced the first wave of organisations that have signed up to become Green Deal providers, ahead of the scheme’s launch in October.