Commercial & Residential Solar

Suntech Power, the world's largest producer of crystalline silicon photovoltaic modules, has now received official certification under the UK Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS) for its modules.

Now that the UK feed-in tariff is in place, UK farmers are set for some good news. As opposed to using their cropland for the installation of solar photovoltaic systems, they can use the often-large rooftop surfaces to generate renewable electricity.

Euro-Line Solar has formed an exclusive partnership in order to promote the Dorfmueller Solaranlagen DMI inverter series to the UK solar photovoltaics market. Through this agreement, Euro-Line Solar will become the sales and marketing extension for the UK. The DMI inverters, manufactured for the on-grid photovoltaic solar market, have been introduced in-line with the newly announced feed-in tariff scheme in the UK.

Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth has awarded a Queen’s Enterprise Award, in the Innovation category, for the development of DuPont’s Solamet photovoltaic metallization paste. 

Sundog Energy, provider of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems, based in Cumbria, has been awarded a £1.3million contract to provide a large solar PV system on the roof of Kings Cross Station in London. Once complete, the system will be one of the largest solar installations in the country.

According to local news provider, ‘This is Cornwall’, a £40 million network of "sun farm" solar power stations are be installed across parts of the Westcountry. The ten plants, if they go ahead as planned, could more than treble the amount of solar energy generated in the UK.

This is both Sundog Energy’s reason for existence and also the title of a forthcoming one day seminar in Munich (on the 8th June, immediately prior to the annual InterSolar trade show).

Exactly one month since the introduction of Feed-in-Tariffs, the energy industry has seen an unprecedented boom in solar enquiries from homeowners hurrying to make the most of the scheme’s financial benefits.

Consumer friendly publisher Which? has undertaken an undercover investigation regarding solar thermal system installers sales tactics regarding these hot water systems designed to heat water using the heat energy from the sun.
 

In a new guide aimed at the owners of run down mansions and estates, he said it was a "tragedy" to see such buildings abandoned, derelict or destroyed.