Commercial & Residential Solar

Parity Projects is now in the final stages of launching a project designed to open up Government’s upcoming Green Deal to organisations of all sizes. The Green Deal Conduit will build a network of small and medium sized organisations involved in the assessment and refurbishment buildings throughout the UK. To date SMEs have voiced concerns that the scheme will only benefit larger companies.

The latest Government Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) statistics, published on June 28, show an evident rise in the number of engineering and manufacturing apprenticeships in the UK. Provisional data shows that in the first nine months of the 2011/12 academic year 44,130 candidates started an apprenticeship in these areas compared to 48,970 starts in the entire 12 month 2010/11 academic year.

Renewable energy project developer TGC Renewables has secured planning approval for an 8MW solar park to be built in the southwest.

Canadian Solar has signed an agreement with Edmundson Electrical that will see the latter act as authorised reseller for Canadian Solar’s modules for distribution in the UK. Edmundson Electrical, a distributor of electrical equipment to trade and industry in the UK, will now include Canadian Solar’s solar module range in its product offerings to UK installers.

A Government-commissioned report has found that UK homeowners are wasting more than £1 billion a year powering appliances they are not using.

Strategic Energy is set to install 1,000 PV panels on Hafod Housing Association properties under a newly signed agreement. The South Wales-based association has commissioned the work as part of its drive to bring social benefits to its communities.

Twelve months on since operations began at Westmill Solar Farm Cooperative, near Swindon, Government Minister for Culture, Communication and Creative Industries Ed Vaizy officially launched a share offer to invest in the development. Hundreds of people from across the UK attended the launch as part of an energy and sustainability fair held at the site of the solar farm at Watchfield, just outside Swindon. The aim of the farm was always to turn it into a cooperative similar to the Westmill Wind Farm Cooperative which has five wind turbines on the same site.

Every household in the Slough district will get the chance of receiving free cavity wall and loft installation.

The owner of renewable energy company Freewatt is on a mission to transform a 300-year-old Georgian home into an energy efficient blueprint for the future.

Eco Environments has been selected by Wigan-based Armstrong Point to install a range of renewable energy technologies at the UK’s first zero energy-cost business park. The £2.7 million development will include the installation of 90kWp of solar PV, a 6kW wind turbine, nine solar thermal hot water systems and nine heat pumps.