Yesterday afternoon I was lucky enough to be part of a one-off solar power-themed school assembly in Surrey with special guests Rio Ferdinand, Gary Lineker, Dale Winton, Simon Cowell, Graham Norton, Jimmy Carr and David Attenborough…
According to research conducted by renewable energy website YouGen, there’s a lot of confusion amongst UK residents about the export of solar electricity to the national grid. Reportedly, customers who have installed solar panels are unsure about how the export payments work, and so-called help lines are just making matters worse.
In Shanghai just now … at an IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) TC82 – Solar PV energy standards meeting. More delegates than I have ever seen at these meetings.
The requirement, or otherwise, for the main AC isolator in a solar PV system to be “located in an accessible position within the Customer’s installation” was discussed at the first of the G83 review meetings yesterday.
BSi has just released a DPC (draft for public comment) version of IEC 62548 Ed.1: Design requirements for photovoltaic (PV) arrays. The DPC has the following on the cover …
Used a trial version of the new Seaward Solar PV100 test instrument for real, for the first time today. We were testing the latest strings of glass-glass PV modules to be installed on the roof of one of our larger London projects.
As we all try and pick ourselves back up from recent knockbacks in the UK’s renewable energy sector, it’s worrying to find out that we missed our renewable energy target for 2010 by 3.5%. As a result, the levels of confidence we have in reaching the much larger, more daunting target set for 2020 are plummeting by the second.
Engineering Recommendation G83 – Recommendations for the Connection of small-scale embedded generators (up to 16A per phase) in parallel with public Low-voltage distribution networks. ER G83 is about to be reviewed and there is an opportunity for the solar PV industry to feed in their comments to this process. I will be sitting on the review committee – and will feed in comments from both Sundog Energy and also the wider PV industry as a REA-STA representative.
