This week the Labour party, as part of their pre election campaign, revealed plans to assist schools in seeking funding for Solar PV. Previously solar for schools was limited due to restrictions on schools borrowing to pursue solar projects. Read the rest of this entry »

This week Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Eric Pickles, announced that the permitted development rights for Solar PV in the UK would be increased from 50kW to 1 Megawatt, a 2000%

another business maximises roof space through commercial solar

increase.

This a huge boost for Commercial Solar rooftop installations. These changes to the development rights remove another barrier that surrounded installations of less than 1MW. In the past 18 months this sector has proven to be one of the fastest growing and most effective  with many businesses across the UK making the most of previously unused space with Solar PV.

The advantages of the governments feed in tariff scheme enable these businesses to receive regular payments for producing energy through their commercial solar PV systems. In addition to these payments, the business can significantly reduce their energy bills as they are producing a portion of their own green electricity on site.

To see how Commercial Solar PV could be the best future investment for your business click here and contact us today.

This week the World’s first man-made lagoon for producing renewable energy was announced as planned in the UK.

The world’s first renewable energy lagoon, planned for UK shores

The world’s first series of man made tidal lagoons, built for the purposes of harnessing energy from hydro power, are revealed to be planned for construction in the UK. The 6 planned plants 4 in Wales and 1 each in Somerset and Cumbria, will utilise the weight of incoming and outgoing tides against new sea walls to power turbines to generate hydro electricity. Read the rest of this entry »

The US state of California’s governor Jerry Brown  has gone a step further on his previous  support

of solar

One of Mr Browns main strategies to reach this goal is a dramatic increase in rooftop solar in the notoriously sunny locale.power with a new target to have 50% of “the golden state’s” energy to come from renewable sources by 2030. Read the rest of this entry »

When will solar power in the UK overtake its current subsides?

Solar PV in the UK is fast outgrowing subsidies

It’s widely acknowledged that Solar PV  in the UK has taken off, in fact in the past year solar PV installs across

the country have doubled.

The subsidies were put in place to improve investments into Solar PV and in turn further research in order for power generated from Solar PV to reach grid parity.

It’s a fact that the goal is for Solar PV in the UK to become subsidy free, the main question is when? Read the rest of this entry »

This week the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) have released figures on the state of Solar Power in the UK. these figures show that  the amount of energy generated by solar power in the UK has doubled over the last 12 months with close to 5 GW installed by the end of 2014,up from a 2.8GW in 2013, that’s enough solar panels to provide electricity to 1.5 million homes. Read the rest of this entry »

Large scale Solar power could be the best option moving forward

Could the world be run on solar power?

It’s widely acknowledged that the vast majority of currently used fossil fuels are running out, so much so that some scientists predict that we will be bereft of these fuel sources inside a century.

Its time to look at other forms of power, everyone agrees on that. One of the most viable long term solutions to the forecast power shortfalls is the widespread implementation of Solar Power.

As a comparison , the Solar Energy that hits a square mile in a year is the energy equivalent of over 4 million barrels of oil.

To match current energy demands the amount of area required to be tuned over to solar PV  would be around 0.2% of the total earth land mass. Read the rest of this entry »

This isn’t just any solar pv array…. this is a Marks and Spencer solar pv array.

The retail giant have joined the growing numbers of UK based businesses investing in to their own future and the future of renewable energy. A massive 24,000 solar panels are planned to be mounted to the roof of  Marks and Spencer’s Warehouse in Castle Donington. Read the rest of this entry »

Rolling power cuts could be seen in the future as we struggle to meet energy demands

This week the National Grid issues warnings to UK residents that over the coming winter its capacity to deliver power to UK homes and businesses will be at a 7 year low as a large number of generation plants have been closed or are foretasted breakdowns.

The grid has released figures detailing that spare electricity capacity last year ran at an average of just 4%, in 2011 that margin was 17%. Since 2012, however, 15 power plants across the UK have been fully or partially closed, leaving a shortfall in the UK’s energy generation capacity.

Predictions estimate Read the rest of this entry »

Recent studies are showing that the total cost of some conventional energy sources are far outweighing the direct cost of cleaner renewable energy sources such as solar.

The study, conducted and released by the European Commission, not only confirms the widely acknowledged fact that solar energy proves cost effective but also brought to public attention that the total direct cost implicated in conventional energy sources such as fossil fuels is significantly higher than that of renewable energy sources like wind or solar. The Support structure for solar across Europe is rapidly descending and coming into line with the huge reductions in cost we have seen over the past decade, other forms of energy like coal and nuclear power are still locked into heavily funded subsidies that they were the base rate 40 years ago.

The bottom line is that Solar has continued to prove itself despite cuts to subsides across Europe, if anything these cuts go as far as to prove how much momentum Solar has gained. As more and more solar installations, both domestic and commercial, are deployed the cost drops and more research makes panels more efficient. The subsidies per kilowatt must drop to reflect the increased production from investment.

Solar Energy has steadily become one of the best energy sources even when rivaled against conventional power and when it comes to renewable technologies it is arguably the top of the pile for the future. Due to the lessened infrastructure required ti set up solar and the variable plant size, from a small domestic system to large commercial sized arrays, Solar’s flexibility make it suitable for almost everyone.

To find out more about why solar energy is so popular and what it could bring to your business or home CLICK HERE to contact us