KLNE has appointed Trilight, Scotland’s largest independent supplier in the lighting industry, as the distributor and service partner for KLNE’s ‘Sunteams’ line of inverters in the UK and Ireland.
In light of the recent feed-in tariff announcement the UK Solar Trade Association (STA) is working on a response to the consultation which it will circulate early next week. This response will be followed by a members' meeting where the response and the Associations' position will be finalised.
Hosting a celebratory launch party at its new headquarters in Milton Keynes, SMA Solar UK yesterday officially opened the base for its UK activities. Housing its new offices, local service stock, sales support and Solar Academy the new building secures SMA’s growing presence in the UK solar market.
The Cut Don’t Kill campaign, launched at Solar Power UK 2011, has warned that the proposed 52% cut to the UK feed-in tariff could “kill the UK solar industry stone dead” – jeopardising the future of 4,000 companies and 25,000 jobs.
Since the new proposed feed-in tariff rates were revealed on Monday one question has been asked more than any other: what does the December deadline really mean? In a bid to provide some much-needed clarity in this area, I’ve done a bit of digging to find out.
After weeks of speculation, rumour and conjecture the Comprehensive Feed-in Tariff (FiT) document has finally been published. This morning, shortly after 10.30am, the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) revealed what lies in the future for solar power in the UK.
Greg Barker, Minister of State for Energy and Climate Change is expected to announce the proposed rates and timescale of the Comprehensive Feed-in Tariff review in just a matter of minutes.
Renewable electricity supplier Good Energy has urged the public to opt for more microgeneration to reap the benefit of Government’s feed-in-tariff (FiT) before the rate changes in April 2012.
