Solar water heating panels are a fabulous, low profile and definitely cost effective method of reducing your energy costs whilst still having plenty of hot water for your family’s needs. These systems basically utilize the heat of the sun (which is free by the way) to warm a reserve of water in order to provide a constant stream of hot water to your home.

Using a Solar water heating system to heat your water supply will;

• Give you hot water the whole year round, although your water may need a little additional help throughout the coldest winter months. Read the rest of this entry »

The best things in life are free. Isn’t that what they always say? Solar panels allow you to take all of that lovely free sunshine and convert it into Solar power – the ultimate renewable energy source. The great thing about sunshine is that you can’t use it up, it won’t run out, the sun arrives every morning like clockwork, okay, so maybe you can’t always see it behind the heavy cloud cover but it’s still there.

Using the sunshine to generate power is just one method of using renewable energy to create electricity without using up any more of the earth’s valuable resources, and while reducing your energy bills. It’s high time that everyone started to take the subject of renewable energy seriously too; experts estimate that the world’s oil reserves will only last for another 30 or 40 years which will be here before we know it. The sunshine lasts forever . . . Read the rest of this entry »

Only half of the grants offered by government to businesses and councils to install renewable heating schemes are being claimed.

One of the main reasons appears to be lack of publicity, but the grant conditions also are claimed to be too tight.

Under the Renewable Heat Incentive, businesses and public sector bodies can claim a subsidy for every unit of power generated from technologies such as Solar water heating panels, biomass boilers and heat pumps, in the same way as can be claimed for renewable electricity under the feed-in tariff scheme. Read the rest of this entry »

The government is set to release details of the £125 million cash back scheme that it hopes will kick-start interest in its flagship Green Deal energy efficiency programme.

Although final details will not be announced until next week, Climate Change Minister Greg Barker said he hoped the measure would be the first step towards instituting the “sea change” he wants the Green Deal to engender in the UK’s energy efficiency standards.

The Green Deal is due to go live on 28 January, at which point homeowners and businesses will be able to sign the first contracts under the scheme. Read the rest of this entry »