Renewable Heat Incentive – news – fine tuning needed by Government.

January 27, 2011

The Renewable Heat Incentive, RHI, needs fixing, before it even has a start date! Dear Readers, How successfully do you think the UK renewables industry will take the flak when, as a consequence of the forthcoming massive £860M Renewable Heat Incentive, RHI subsidy scheme… potentially overspending £millions (MCS industry legitimised solar thermal performance inflation fraud [...]

Solar news 11 Jan 2011: home energy costs rise again. Solar value improves.

January 11, 2011

Solar panel users now have improved financial savings following widespread prices rises for gas and electricity. The BBC reported the following increases today: Scottish Power: gas up 2%; electricity up 8.9% Scottish and Southern Energy: gas up 9.4% British Gas: gas and electricity up 7% EDF Energy: no change before March 2011 Npower: gas and [...]

Solar News: Renewable Heat Incentive “Tariffs Announcement” Delayed until Feb 2011.

January 10, 2011

Why is the RHI being delayed – yet again? Clean Energy Cashback = Feed in Tariffs + Renewable Heat Incentive. CECB = FIT + RHI. RHI covers solar thermal (solar water heating swh) also heat pumps and biomass heating. RHI solar news. Green grants UK news. RHI subsidy. Dear Renewable Energy Readers, I have just [...]





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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