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Barrow 1618 Primary School has become Shropshire’s first carbon neutral school thanks to the work of Cheshire-based Green Electrician Group.

Waltham Forest Council has turned its car park into a solar power plant thanks to the installation of a solar carport system from SolarTech Ltd.

Industry is seeing the first of the capacity triggered reductions in tariffs – the longer term, more regular, smaller cuts that are designed by Government to provide ‘stability and long-term security’ to the PV market. So now looks like a good time to assess the scheme and see whether it really can deliver.

Renewable Advice, a green tech company that specialises in manufacturing wind turbine blades and composites has turned to another technology to help it reduce its carbon footprint – thin film solar photovoltaic panels.

Southam-based building envelope contractor, Alumet, has retro-fitted an all new environmentally friendly façade to the face of their Warwickshire headquarters which was recently unveiled by legendary actor Brian Blessed as part of the company’s 20th anniversary celebrations. The external facelift lifts Jubilee House out of the 1970s and drops it firmly in the present by incorporating triple glazed windows and ProSol TF Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) into the fabric of the building.

The newly-constructed Lisa Dixon Centre is to become Haswell and District Mencap’s new home and will help support all in the local community with learning disabilities, their families and carers, as well as the wider community. The centre was named in memory of Lisa Dixon, who sadly passed away after suffering with brain damage from birth.

Reed Chillcheater has embraced solar photovoltaic technology by installing solar arrays at both its offices in Barnstaple and Braunton. The wetsuit manufacturer approached renewable energy installer, Source Renewables, to design and install two bespoke solar arrays in order to lower the British manufacturer’s carbon footprint as well as secure its future energy needs.

A sheltered accommodation block in Lancaster is now benefiting from renewable heat and electricity thanks to a combination of solar photovoltaic and solar thermal panels.

St Robert Bellarmine’s Parish Church in Glasgow has become the third church in the Archdiocese of Glasgow to install solar PV in order to combat rising energy bills as well cut down their utility bills.

When Greg Barker introduced the new tri-monthly degression model for the solar industry he promised us that it would prevent industry from “falling victim to boom and bust”. However, the latest installation figures show yet another boom and bust cycle in the aftermath of the August 1 cuts to the feed-in tariff.