Commercial & Residential Solar

The Standard Assessment Procedure (SAP) is used to assess the energy performance of dwellings and includes a section to estimate the annual performance of a solar PV system. PV installers should be very familiar with the PV – SAP calculation as it is the method currently proscribed under the Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS).

Greg Barker, the Climate Change Minister, has defended the Government’s flagship green policy: the Green Deal. In recent weeks, the policy has come under mounting criticism from interested parties, with the consultation period set to draw to a close today.

Adding to the growing number of solar manufacturing facilities in the UK, organic solar cell developer Eight19 has commissioned a new development and roll-to-roll printing facility at its Cambridge headquarters. The new line is expected to optimise the processes necessary for high-volume organic solar cell production.

According to the Government’s own figures, the number of cavity wall and loft insulation installations will fall dramatically under the Government’s flagship green policy: the Green Deal.

With just months to go before Government’s flagship Green Deal policy kicks off, Climate Change Minister Greg Barker has launched a partnership to ensure the UK has the skills required for an effective rollout of the scheme.

A low afternoon sun is shining on our office PV system just now – and the back row has a small amount of shading on it (was predicted in our modelling).

According to a report published today by the Royal Academy of Engineering, the UK has no hope of reaching its binding 2050 target for CO2 reductions without a serious shake-up of the way homes are heated. The publication, Heat: degrees of comfort, finds that even with the most modern gas boilers and state-of-the art insulation, we cannot continue to heat so many homes by natural gas and still achieve an 80 percent cut in emissions as laid down in the Climate Change Act 2008.

The Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has published the latest solar photovoltaic installation figures for 2012, which show that from January 1-8, only 532 solar PV installs were registered for the feed-in tariff scheme.

Looking at comments on the draft of Edition 3 of the PV guide … bit surprised we didn’t get more comments on the AC module part of section 2.1.13 – d.c. isolation and switching…

Peterborough County Council is set to give the green light to a £200 million scheme to install solar photovoltaic panels across the council’s property portfolio.