Seven ways to clean up / green up the solar heating and microgeneration industry.

November 10, 2010

Solar Panels & Microgeneration Certification Scheme Governance. Toothless Renewable Energy Industry REAL Consumer Code Watchdog. Senior Solar Cowboys Making “Zero Carbon” & “Free Hot Water” false claims. Renewable Heat Incentive Grants for DIY Solar Heating. Getting The Best Solar Installers. Heat Pumps & Solar Water Heating Legionella Safety. Seeking Low Solar Prices. Here is an [...]

Solar news: 9 Nov 2010. Latecomers to the Feed In Tariff “could lose out”

PV solar news: imminent FIT cuts rumoured in UK. A crash cut in Great Britain’s solar electric panels PV subsidy called the Feed in Tariff (FIT) is looking increasingly likely following the emergence of companies offering free PV installations (in return for 25 years of subsidy) and the impending large scale development of solar farms [...]

How to Improve the Microgeneration Certification Scheme

Microgeneration certification scheme – how to improve it. Renewable Heat Incentive – how not to waste money. Solar water heating panels and systems focus. Will the UK government overpay £31M to users of mains pumped solar heating systems under the Renewable heat incentive? If the UK government seeks: a simple way to fairly and justifiably [...]





Ding! Round 3 of UK government’s solar PV FIT legality fisticuffs starts.

Breaking UK solar news: yawn… Right up against tomorrow’s deadline, DECC HAS confirmed that it WILL appeal the FIT legality decision made against it in the High Court. The impact of this on us may be up to a year of delay before we actually know whether it is 43p or 21p from 12 Dec [...]

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Solartwin exposes yet another Legionella safety cover-up by old solar heating interests.

UK solar thermal industry cover up of possible Legionnaire’s disease infection risk in twin coil solar cylinders, via Summitskills’ National Occupational Standards document, is about to be cleverly implemented via MCS adoption, who are DECC’s gateway to RHI and RHPP solar grants for hot water solar water heating systems. I am not supposed to tell [...]

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DECC publishes plans for conditional solar PV FITs after 1 April.

Breaking solar news UK: The outcome of the (still legally-challenged) solar PV FIT consultation was published today, 9 Feb 2012. DECC PV FIT cuts: PRESS release web page. DECC PV FIT cuts: MAIN document pdf. Key points for domestic PV FIT customers are: 21p per kWh domestic solar PV FiT from 1 April confirmed, with [...]

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Solar News: Parliamentary Questions asked about Renewable Heat Premium Payment and Solar Thermal.

Stephen Mosley, MP for Chester, who takes a strong interest in energy policy matters, has submitted two Parliamentary Questions to the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC): 1/ What plans does the Secretary of State have to support Solar Thermal Energy?. 2/ What plans does the Secretary of State have for the Domestic Renewable [...]

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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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