For mass take-up of energy saving measures we need effective financing schemes, so we welcome the glimpses of detail on the Green Deal that Greg Barker gave us at the end of June. However, it’s not enough to get a clear view of how the scheme will work.
How will it be delivered?
Barker said: “Two things More…
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The Green Deal: who would you prefer to deliver it?
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010Six tips to save you from solar panel cowboys
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010Solar hot water is intrinsically an ethical industry. We all want to save the planet don’t we? So we need to ensure that unscrupulous companies do not thrive and give us all a bad name!
When there is a chance of making a buck or two it will always attract the greedy and less scrupulous businesses. More…
Paulownia for Biomass by Silva Tree
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010Every six hours, our planet receives as much energy from the sun as the world consumes in a year. If we could just collect it, our global energy problems could be over.
When we think of using the sun’s energy for our power needs, we think of solar panels. In fact, this More…
Heat Pumps: 10 things a good installer should ask you
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010Finding an installer for a renewable energy technology should be a straight forward exercise. With all the certification an installer has to meet, such as the Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS), to enable a client to access grants, the installer has to know what they are talking about and be competent. Don’t they?
Unfortunately, with the installation More…
Avoiding the solar cowboys
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010Only one of 14 solar thermal salespeople proved worthy of recommendation in Which?’s recent investigation into solar panel companies. This is devastating news both for the industry and, more importantly, for people wanting to switch to solar hot water systems.
Ten of the companies misled researchers and some also used what can only be described as More…
National Real Bread Maker Week
Friday, April 16th, 2010National Real Bread Maker Week
1st -9th May 2010
The first ever National Real Bread Maker Week is encouraging the owners of Britain’s 10 million unused bread machines to dig them out and get baking Real Bread or pass them on to someone who will.
If you’re not a home baker, a bread machine allows you still to More…
Renewable Heat Incentive: join the campaign for equal treatment for existing generators
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010More and more people are calling for the renewable heat incentive (also known as the Clean Energy Cashback) to treat existing microgenerators equally. At RegenSW’s consultation conference in Bristol earlier this month property developers and installers were flagging it up as important for the scheme’s success. We also know that lots of people who’ve already More…
Renewable energy is coming to a supermarket near you
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010"I’m just popping down to Tesco for a solar panel" doesn’t sound right somehow. Maybe it’s just me, but I not sure that the entry of the supermarkets into the renewable energy market is a good thing.
Sainsbury is first out of the starting gates. It opened Home Energy Centres in three of its More…
An open invitation to Earth Hour 2010!
Monday, March 8th, 2010Last year on Saturday 28 March at 8.30pm local time, the world switched off its lights for an hour.
It was the biggest global mass participation protest about the effects of climate change ever seen, and it was called Earth Hour – organised by the international conservation charity WWF.
And nearly 1 billion people joined in, More…
Feed-in tariff: Your questions answered
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010The introduction of the feed-in tariff (known as Clean Energy Cashback scheme) opens a new and exciting era for microgeneration. Here we answer some of the most common questions on the new scheme. If you’ve got any more, please add a comment below and we’ll do our best to answer. The information below refers to More…
