Gas Safety Week runs from 14-20 September 2015. If you haven't already done it during the summer, now is the time to get your gas appliances checked and serviced by a Gas Safe registered engineer. It's important to ensure that gas fires and gas boilers (as well as gas cookers) are working safely and efficiently before the start of winter. It could save your life so don't put it … [Read more...]
Government Scraps Green Deal
Amber Rudd, the newly appointed Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, announced on 23 July 2015 the end of the Green Deal project covering household energy efficiency improvements in England and Wales. There will be no further funding to the Green Deal Finance Company and there will be no future funding releases of the Green Deal Home Improvement Fund. This … [Read more...]
Feed In Tariff For Solar PV Panels Will Fall Again From April 2015
Following the 5% drop in payments for solar PV panels implemented in January 2015 there will be a further 3.5% drop from April 2015 (for 4kWp or less installations). This means that the generation tariff for higher rate installations installed after 1st April and before 12 July 2015 will be 13.39p per kWh compared with 13.88p for installations coming on line in the … [Read more...]
Green Deal Home Improvement Fund -Phase 2 – Launched December 2014
On 10 December 2014 the government announced further funding under the Green Deal Home Improvement Fund, with an additional £100 million to be released for household energy efficiency improvements in England and Wales over the next 9 months. £30 million was released for the December 2014 - February 2015 period of which £24 million was for solid wall insulation and £6 million … [Read more...]
New Developments In Solar Power: Solar Energy Exhibition
A recent visit to the Solar Energy UK 2014 exhibition at the NEC Birmingham (14-16 October 2014) highlighted a few innovative products that may well become stars of the future for domestic customers. My top five developments from the show were: Thin Film Solar PV PanelsColoured Solar PV PanelsIntegrated Roof Mounting Systems For PV PanelsHeating Hot Water Using Solar PV … [Read more...]