Solartwin solar water heating featured in a BBC Wales programme on the energy crisis in Thursday 27 June 08 as nationwide interest in renewable energy increases.

Today (27 June 08) the price of crude oil surged to another record of $142 a barrel, amid concerns about oil producers’s ability or even willingness to meet demand. Fears were heightened by yesterday’s statement from Libya that they were considering cutting oil production in response to US threats against oil exporters. “Energy insecurity as [...]

Fuel prices rose to a world record price today, breaking $140 per barrel as the UK government unveiled their renewable energy strategy for consultation. If it rises to $150 per barrel our calculations show that solar water heating can be a genuinely economic option for people who will save high cost fuels such as electricity. [...]

Long term resilient policies to support microgeneration are needed in UK according to a recent study conducted by Element Energy. It reports that other EU countries such as Holland, Austria and Germany have already spent “orders of magnitude” more funds on supporting microgeneration such as solar heating, micro wind and PV to date, compared to [...]

Yet another oil price high underlines the reasons to cut fuel use and to turn to renewable energy as speculators and concern about security of supply grip the world’s fuel markets following Israel’s threat to take out Iran’s nuclear capability. Commented Barry Johnston, Managing Director of Solartwin today: “Today’s European Energy strategy had assumed that [...]