Swedish Flat-pack giant Ikea started a partnership with Chinese thin-film solar manufacturer Hanergy to bring easy Solar PV to domestic properties across the UK. Following an initial trial period the scheme was rolled out to all 18 of the Nordic superstores UK locations and saw huge uptake. Read the rest of this entry »

Following the cabinet reshuffle, the UK’s Solar champion in government, Greg Barker replaced new Secretary of State for Energy, Matt Hancock. Mr Hancock reaffirmed his faith in the UK’s solar potential several times in a Parliament debate on renewable energy this week, the new secretary was keen to point out how Solar PV was one of the largest potentials in the UK renewables race Read the rest of this entry »

Technology giants are seeing a new area of competition with each other, sustainability.

California based household name, Apple, have made a switch to renewable energy. Currentlyall of their US data centres are run on clean energy. Their North Carolina data centre located in Maiden is currently supplied by a 400, 000 square metre solar array.

Lisa Jackson, Apple’s vice president of environmental initiatives and the former head of the US Environmental Protection Authority (EPA), told Sky News why Apple had invested in the solar array. Read the rest of this entry »

Minister for climate change, Greg Barker, has announced plans to boost the growing uptake in commercial solar installations in the UK. Speaking to representatives at the British Photovoltaic Association’s Commercial and Domestic Rooftop Solar recently in the capital, Mr Barker echoed his long repeated statements on the importance of Solar Power to the UK and the governments desire to continually increase uptake of commercial solar power for UK roofspace. Read the rest of this entry »

New data released by the research firm IHS, details that up to 69% of the planned solar installs across 2014 and 2015 throughout Europe are planned to take place in the UK. Approximately 7 gigawatts of solar pv are planned to be installed across Europe of the coming 18 months. With that factored the UK can expect at least 4.8GW of solar photo voltaic power installed over the next 18 months. Read the rest of this entry »

Last Month Engineering and Technology giant Siemens announced their plans for large scale wind turbine production and installation facilities in the north of the UK. The 2 sites are the Green port Hull project which has been announced previously, and will cover service construction and assembly and the newly revealed plan for a new rotor blade manufacturing facility in Paull, East Riding.

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The UK are the first nation in Europe to have announced and launched a dedicated solar strategy.  The Department of Energy and Climate Change announced in early April 2014 that their solar strategy would be published, this is the first dedicated document to solar energy strategy by a European government, and is a testament to the massive level of growth that the solar sector has bared witness to over the past few years.

The newly published strategy has placed a particular emphasis on encouraging the deployment of rooftop solar systems including the currently slow but steady growth of the commercial sized systems. The document also confirms the government’s goal to reach one million solar powered homes by 2015.

Energy Minister Greg Barker said “we have managed to put ourselves among the world leaders on solar and this strategy will help us stay there” Read the rest of this entry »

Your aim as a business must be to make as much money as you possibly can, but you need to do so while keeping your carbon footprint to a minimum. One of the ways both objectives can be met with one investment is to opt for solar energy solutions, which will be used to power your businesses processes and buildings.

Operating Costs Are Lowered

Did you know that you can get tax breaks when you use renewable energy sources to run your business such as solar energy? Anything that you can do to increase the figure of your bottom line is surely a good thing, and by opting for solar energy you can get as much as 15-25% back off your tax forms by making the investment. Read the rest of this entry »

If you own commercial property with a lot of open space on the roof then consider investing in commercial solar panels. They have benefits that will not only cut energy operating costs, but will also go a long way towards improving the environment.

Picking A Company

You need to find commercial solar panels that have very high energy efficiency ratings. This means that they need to be able to convert as much of the incoming solar rays to electrical energy as possible. The more efficient the solar panels are the bigger the energy savings will be, and that is why you need to select a company that is known for high quality products. Read the rest of this entry »

Solar energy has huge environmental benefits so it stands to reason that commercial Solar can make a big difference, the bigger the supply of commercial Solar the larger the benefits to the environment.

Factories are huge buildings which regularly emit enormous levels of harmful, even toxic waste into the air which results in detrimental effects on our delicate planet. Switching to commercial Solar energy really can make a substantial difference to air pollution, noise pollution – there really is no need to rely on burning the dwindling supply of fossil fuels to create power – commercial Solar panels can do the job quickly, easily, effectively, cheaply and cleanly. Read the rest of this entry »