Commercial & Residential Solar

Bournemouth Council housing is all set for a solar makeover as a proposal to install photovoltaic panels on 200 homes receives positive feedback. Following the successful roll-out of a number of solar systems in the area over the past two months, Cabinet members are being asked to extend the area’s renewable ambition.

Overcoming the constraints of the fast-track review once more, Lark Energy has this week completed its second large-scale solar park in the UK. Following the successful commissioning of the 4.89MWp Hawton solar farm, the 4.51MWp project at Marston, near Grantham in Lincolnshire, is now generating solar energy for…

British Gas is launching a new initiative that will help customers reduce the upfront cost of installing solar panels and other green technologies. The British Gas Home Energy Plan will protect customers from rising energy prices by enabling them to install efficiency measures with the help of a fixed-term loan.

By installing a large field-based solar array, Cornish holiday company The Olde House in Chapel Amble will significantly reduce its annual energy bills. By connecting to the National Grid, the 242kW field-based array, which is one of the first in the area, pipped Government’s feed-in tariff cuts to the post.

Plans are being put in place for a large roll out of solar panels in Eastbourne. Cabinet Councillors at the Borough Council last night approved the scheme, which will see the installation of solar panels on between 700 to 1,500 council owned houses and non-domestic buildings.

Signing off on one of the largest solar deals in the UK, the Peabody Group, which includes London housing associations Peabody and CBHA, has selected building contractor Breyer Group to install solar panels across 25 London boroughs.

Fronius, the Austrian inverter manufacturer, has increased customer confidence by extending its product warranty to 20 years. From July 1 until the end of October 2011 Fronius customers will receive a 20 year warranty on their inverters for the same price as a ten year one.

Just seven weeks after being granted planning permission, Conergy Group has finished installing the UK’s largest solar plant. The 5MW free-field system is located in the parish of Hawton near Newark-on-Trent in Nottinghamshire and will feed back 4,860 MWh of electricity into the national grid.

A project to install a 40kW solar photovoltaic installation on the rooftops of Norwich City Hall looks set to be given the go-ahead, when the City Council’s cabinet meets next week.

Consumer watchdog Which? is this week calling on energy companies not to push for the hard sale when installing smart meters in the UK. This news comes after Government pledged to ensure every home in Great Britain has a smart meter by 2020, at a cost of £11.3 billion.