Solar UK News: 10% solar FIT PV subsidy cuts briefing – with original buzzwords!

December 1, 2010

Solar FIT, solar feed in tariff, solar subsidy news, FIT cuts, DECC to cut green grants for PV electricity Dear Solar Energy Enthusiast, Just heard that UK Energy Minister Greg Barker held a high level meeting in late November with the renewable energy industry’s “great and good” (ahhrumnph – so why were we absent?!) to [...]

News: Environmental Performance Claims Inflation in Solar Thermal. Amendment Proposal to MCS.

Performance overclaiming in water solar heating – should it continue in UK with apparent Microgeneration Certification Scheme consent? Improved consumer protection is again proposed by Solar Twin Ltd. A waste of public funds by the Renewable Heat Incentive potentially overpaying £31M to users of mains pumped solar heating is highlighted and a solution proposed. Environmental [...]

News: Legionella safety proposal to MIcrogeneration Certification Scheme.

Legionella in solar water heating and heat pumps. Consumer protection and Legionellosis. Microgeneration Certification Scheme now formally asked to upgrade documents and standards such as MIS 3001 on solar thermal installations. Amendements needed in MCS regulatory documents MIS 3005 on heat pump installations and MCS 002 on building regulations and directives to deliver Legionella compliance. [...]





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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