News: 25 March 2011. Britain’s leading solar heating product inventor, Archibald William Kerr MacGregor, 70, of Temple Village, Midlothian, Scotland, died suddenly on Tuesday this week while involved in promoting solar energy. Kerr MacGregor invented Solartwin (initially known as Flex-sol) , a simple, freeze tolerant, solar water heating system. Over 5000 Solartwin installations are in [...]

Home Renewables Loans Scheme Scotland. £2000 solar loans. Zero interest domestic solar energy equipment loans in Scotland. Use it or lose it! First come first served loans for ONLY 250 people. In response to the UK government’s latest bungle iteration of the Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme which has delayed the implementation of domestic solar heating [...]

Solar RHI news: Thursday 10 March 2011. (Hundreds of pages of official RHI documents on the DECC website, here). RHI news good for consumers? On first impressions, a modest boost in consumer interest from today’s low levels is expected. This is because a cash subsidy (of £300 for solar thermal installations) will be payable, rather [...]

Zero Carbon Solar News: 8 March 2011 The Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has just published a new ‘Carbon Plan’ which set targets for the Government to meet their carbon / environmental obligations. The Carbon Plan focuses on the jobs and economic benefits of the low carbon economy as well as on specific [...]

Renewable energy news 3 March 2011. The Advertising Standards Authority have just told Good Energy to ensure that their future ads did not imply they supplied 100% renewable energy directly to consumers. The complainant thought that a Good Energy advertisement misleadingly implied that Good Energy supplied 100% renewable energy directly to customers whereas it was [...]

Solar industry cleanup news 1 March 2011: Since the hot water system solar consumer has comprehensively been let down for years by the Renewable Industry’s “REAL Consumer Code” on matters of what seems almost like rampant performance overclaiming, Solar Twin Ltd have today asked the Advertising Standards Authority to confirm that all these solar water [...]