Solar Industry News

SolarUK Ltd maintains a watch on current news about our industry. We have presented our up to date list of news items below.

Household Energy Bills will soar by £300 a year
Energy Secretary warns that heavy cuts in energy use are needed and consumer will need to turn to energy-generating technologies such as solar to offset price rises.
Source: express, Date and Time of entry: 28 July 2010 15:11

Solar PV: UK Feed in Tariffs
The Feed in Tariff obliges the traditional energy companies (known in this context as FIT Licensees) to pay the owner of a solar PV system above market rates for the clean energy that they generate and also guarantees an additional price (per kWh) for the energy that they sell/export.
Source: solaruk, Date and Time of entry: 21 July 2010 12:47

Lloyds predicts energy price increase as peak oil is reached
Peak oil, the point where consumption of oil is no longer matched by new oil produced is set to lead to an increase in energy prices in the next few years.
Source: prinside, Date and Time of entry: 21 July 2010 10:32

Comment: Has the long-awaited UK solar revolution really arrived?
The UK is perhaps not the first country one thinks of when talking about solar photovoltaic (PV), but the country has some great potential. Dr Serge Younes, Sustainability Services Director at WSP Environment & Energy, explores.
Source: solaruk, Date and Time of entry: 21 July 2010 10:31

Vicars urged to put solar panels on church roofs
By generating their own energy and selling the surplus back to the grid, churches, mosques and synogogues could collect £29 million.
Source: mirror, Date and Time of entry: 13 July 2010 11:16

London mayor opens roof-top green research centre
Boris Johnson opens a new teaching and research facility for low carbon technologies.
Source: bdonline, Date and Time of entry: 06 July 2010 11:17

Chancellor urged to go green in emergency budget
Friends of the Earth call for low carbon energy technologies to receive support and road-building to be cut.
Source: edie, Date and Time of entry: 22 June 2010 11:19

'Czar' plan to save North East's uplands
The appointment of an Uplands Minister is one of the recommendations of a report into the future of the North's uplands. As well as revising agri-payments to keep hill farming viable, there should be support for community-owned renewable energy schemes.
Source: journal, Date and Time of entry: 15 June 2010 11:39

SolarUK's solar thermal panels on display in Lewes this weekend
East Sussex homeowners interested in the potential of clean energy microgeneration will be heading for Lewes Energy Saving House Weekend, Saturday 19th – Sunday 20th June.
Source: solaruk, Date and Time of entry: 15 June 2010 11:32

UK Solar PV market could grow five fold in 2010
PricewaterhouseCoopers survey suggests that feed-in tariff will boost roll out of solar PV, which had been hampered by lack of incentives, complexity of funding and planning restrictions.
Source: proptalk, Date and Time of entry: 08 June 2010 11:50