UK PV FIT CUTS ANNOUNCED 31 October 2011. solar panels subsidy / support breaking news: Solar FIT CUTS NEWS Update Friday 4 November 2011. Here is the latest STA position on the FIT cuts, points with which we fully agree.   The 12th December FIt cuts implementation date is unfair – and must be delayed [...]

Solar News Black Comedy Update: 21 October 2011. The STA Chairman, “Honest Cowboy” Howard Johns, has just told us that the Solar Trade Association “refuses to accede to any of these demands”, in other words the requests which are set out below.  And, of course, that we, rather than the STA, are bringing the industry [...]

British Solar Trade Association [STA] and its unlawful Solar Thermal boycott of Solar Twin Ltd’s Innovative Solar Water Heating disruptive technology, Solartwin, which has been blocked, blackballed & case-referred to the Office of Fair Trading [OFT], UK’s consumer & competition regulator, is now asked to clean up its faces & governance at its AGM.    [...]

The OFT Off Grid Energy Market Study reports are here. Here are some key summary phrases [With ours in square brackets]. Clearly the British solar panels industry did not get a clean bill of health: From Press Release. There were also some concerns surrounding the potential for mis-selling of solar panels. [Glad that this was [...]

Solar news:  14 October 2011: DECC strenuously denies rumours that the FIT for PV’s may face an imminent fast track review & may be cut to as low as 9p across the board. The UK’s Department of Energy and Climate Change today denied rumours that a fast track review of its generous and popular Feed [...]

Here comes the sun: a field trial of solar water heating systems by the Energy Saving Trust. Download the EST Solar Thermal Field Trials “Here Comes The Sun” report here. Solar industry news, comment and analysis by Solartwin. There are plenty of good things about this new report as well as some concerns. But first, [...]