People will pay over £3k more for green homes – official!

February 26, 2009

53 per cent of homeowners would be willing to pay more for green homes, according to recent figures from the Energy Saving Trust (EST). £3,350 extra is the average sum that buyers would be prepared to pay more for a green home. The EST also found that many believed estate agents do not put enough [...]

Press interest in Legionella causes Solar Trade Association to end contact with Solartwin.

February 13, 2009

The Solar Trade Asssociation’s thuggish approach to innovators and whistleblowers in its back yard is again laid bare with the STA justifying their unlawful exclusion of Solartwin from membership by them writing: In light of all the Solartwin website published information about the STA and your actions in sending out information to Which? magazine… plus [...]

Solartwin installers seminar successful

February 11, 2009

Today saw another popular installers seminar in Chester, led by Solartwin’s Commercial and Technical Manager, Chris Wilcox. 20 people attended and, on a breezy day where the air temperatures strugged to hit 4C, a solar panel set up in the car park rose to 70C in just a few minutes. A bucket of water heated [...]





Solar News 25 Jan 2012. New Solar Gold Rush as UK Government Loses Second PV FIT Cuts Case.

Solar PV FIT cuts news UK 25 January 2012. 43.3p Solar PV FIT looks increasingly likely for a brief manic “use it or lose it” 5 week window. Barrister Edmund Robb is confident that the Supreme Court will refuse the DECC’s second appeal and has said so publicly. This would mean the full 43.3p solar [...]

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UK Solar PV FIT Cuts: Appeal Court Judges Deliver Decision Wednesday 25 January.

Shivers are shaking UK’s once sunshiney solar industry. Increasingly, tweeters are opining that 21p (rather than a reversion to 43.3p) is better for everyone because it will prevent a gold rush and excessive depletion of a limited subsidy budget. Anyway’ here’s our take on the story: On Wednesday January 25, Some time after 10 am, [...]

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UK’s DECC confirm “plan B” if they lose their solar PV FIT subsidy court case.

UK solar PV FIT cut plan B strategy: More Solar Subsidy Clarity for UK Solar Photovoltaic Panels Consumers! Phew… Legal summary: DECC has announced that it will be laying before Parliament some draft licence modifications which, subject to the Parliamentary process set out in the Energy Act 2008, make provision for a the new rates [...]

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ASA “Zero Carbon Solar” ban. We request Independent Review.

UK Solar Marketing News: 19 January 2012. Following December’s ASA decision to ban us from saying “Zero Carbon Solar”, Solar Twin Ltd have requested an Independent Review, following up on some earlier expressions of concern, they have today published a summary of their concerns here. 1/ Complaint Identity. Having only been supplied with an assurance [...]

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Six GREAT reasons to order solar PV panels this week.

Solar news UK: Six good reasons to order solar PV this week.   Yes, this is a naked pitch for solar PV panel business. What, if anything you wear while reading this is up to you… 1/ Guaranteed 21p minimum feed in tariff. In response to industry, the government have just clarified that there is [...]

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