PV

A new 792-module strong solar array in Scotland has been praised by the country’s Energy Minister. The solar plant is based at the Malcom Allan Housebuilders warehouse in Kintore and is predicted to generate over 114,000kWh of clean, green electricity a year.

Warwickshire-based automotive tool specialists, the Tool Connection, has invested in solar panels to help drive down its manufacturing costs.

The National Solar Centre hopes to provide an excellent opportunity for the solar PV industry to grow, mature and thrive to become up to a 22GW market by 2020. Here’s how:

After escalating energy bills started to become a major concern for the owners of Ford Farm, they investigated ways in which they could insulate the farm from future energy price hikes whilst also reducing the farm’s overall environmental footprint.

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.