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The McKenna family, who have already gone to great lengths to improve the energy efficiency of the their home by installing cavity wall and loft insulation and fitting a solar thermal system, approached Eco Environments in order to add solar photovoltaics into the mix.

A recent survey conducted by Farming Futures and Solarcentury has found that 80% of farmers in the UK want to have solar photovoltaics installation on their roofs within the next three years. These results prove that farmers’ interest in generating renewable electricity has increased dramatically since the…

Energy Minister Charles Hendry has announced that developers of new large-scale renewable electricity projects will get earlier and greater certainty about how much support they will receive under the Renewables Obligation from 2013. New utility project developers will now have more of an idea of the support they will…

Liverpool- based Eco-Environments has opened new offices in Manchester, Tamworth, Penrith, and most recently, Darlington, in a bid to cater for the increased demand for renewable energy in the UK. Eco-Environments’ team of 20 employees designs, installs and commissions renewable energy…

UK-based specialist glass developer, Romag is reportedly entangled in a row over a £2.3 million charge with a supplier of solar photovoltaic cells used in the manufacture of solar glass. The company said that its supplier was no longer able to deliver the required product and had asked Romag to take a different type.

Minister of State for Energy Charles Hendry has revealed plans for a new scheme which will pay guzzlers to use less during peak energy demand periods. In a bid to reduce the UK’s carbon emissions, the scheme will reward big power consumers for each ‘negawatt’ of capacity they switch off.

After a fairly disappointing month of solar installations in October, the latest figures from Ofgem show that November has brought the total back up to over 6MW of systems. During the period 1-30 November there were 2,194 domestic installations (5.718MW), 27 commercial installations (0.264MW), no industrial…

Laughing in the face of large-scale solar intimidation, new business venture Solar Power Direct has launched its free solar panel installation deal aimed specifically at commercial properties throughout England and Wales.

German solar company SunConcept has set up a UK subsidiary at Kings Hill in West Malling, Kent. The company reports that it has been monitoring the UK market since the previous government published the ‘UK Renewable Energy Strategy’ back in July 2009, and has now made the decision to increase its activity in the UK after the introduction of the FiT.

Independent property Fund Manager, Rockspring Property Investment Managers is to convert Westcott Venture Park in Buckinghamshire to run on solar energy. Rockspring, which is being advised by Renewable energy company Ownergy, will begin construction in the New Year.