STOP PRESS – 1/7/9 EST have now accepted that Solar Twin’s key comments on their document are in fact correct and a review has been suggested! MORE NEWS TO FOLLOW! Twin Ltd have identified serious flaws in a 40 page solar heating document produced by the Energy Saving Trust (EST). Unfortunately the problem document (CE [...]

Does BBC Watchdog overclaim for old solar water heating? Decide for yourself. Below is a copy of an email sent to BBC Watchdog on 12 March 2009 Dear BBC Watchdog, your editor might like to know that there is a glaring inaccuracy in the BBC Watchdog article on solar water heating at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/watchdog/consumer_advice/latest_solar_panels_pic.shtml Under the [...]

Two key parts of the UK solar grants schemes today suffered serious blows. A solar electric (PV) fund has run out of cash. The solar water heating scheme is now mired in multiple sleaze allegations, prompting unprecedented intervention by the government department which funds it. Solar electric PV funding stream of LCBP unplugged. The Stream [...]

Is this as flaming and libellous as the AECB claim? Judge it yourself. Perhaps the truth hurts certain AECB members? Is the British Plumbing Education Council solar heating installer training manual “fair and impartial”? I am a BPEC qualified solar thermal installer who attended a 4 day live-in training course at the Centre for Alternative [...]

The systematic blocking of superior and often innovative solar thermal systems from the UK and European solar thermal market is increasing rapidly. With jaw-dropping case studies, this paper examines the rotting state of UK’s solar water heating market. Read this alternative to the Old Solar Trade Association’s   Solar Thermal Standards and Innovation presentation sessions [...]