UK Solar PV FIT cuts Judicial Review. FoE UK v DECC In case you want to know about the Solar PV FIT Judicial Review by Friends of The Earth, here is our reaction. One the one hand, the fact that it has shown DECC that it needs to follow due process is welcome, because too [...]

ASA bans our strapline: “Zero Carbon Solar”. Dark winter solstice reflections on a week of hell. Solar news: 21 Dec 2011. To sum up, last week, on 14 December 2011, our 12 year old strapline “Zero Carbon Solar” was condemned by the UK Advertising Standards Authority as a “misleading environmental claim”. Rather than sunshine, over [...]

Goodbye, Zero Carbon Solar! 1999-2011. RIP aged 12. ASA decision A11-169818 responding to complaints made by ONE non-commercially linked householder. Breathe deeply and exhale. I invite you to read to the end of this (while transferring CO2 from your blood, into your alveoli and then into the atmosphere). Although, as constant innovators, we are very [...]

Don’t say “Zero Carbon Solar” (Nor Zero Carbon Anything-else, or the ASA will damn you!) Solar News 14 December 2011: Strapline 1: Gorillas holding machine guns are not all that funny. Strapline 2: Will John Prescott’s famous “Zero Carbon Homes” aspiration also be gunned down? Solar innovator, Barry Johnston, Managing Director of Solar Twin Ltd [...]

Zero Carbon Solar? Is the ASA in the slow lane / the dark / the lodge? Choose your un-illuminated (sic) metaphor. Solar Zero Carbon Background. Even though, after the REAL Code cravenly failed to do so, UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) eventually succeeded in getting the Solar Trade Association’s Chairman, Howard Johns, and many other [...]

Watch out! The supposed 21p PV FIT subsidy is NOT set in stone… This is our comment on the status of the proposed 21p/kWh tariff for solar PV systems installed after 12 December 2011, based on some helpful membership documentation supplied by the Micropower Council. What are the main issues? Time and sums. UK Government [...]

Is yet another solar PV orders rush expected in Q1 2012? Here is a UK solar panel grants timeline for 2012… AGAGAGAHHHHHH (The Tarzan Yodel)! Today’s sketch map of UK’s fast-evolving solar subsidy jungle, and the possibility that DECC will (again) bungle in that jungle. A shedload more of solar restrictions / added value opportunities [...]