Don’t get caught out by renewables deadlines, warns Savills in Scotland
Although Scottish local authority planning statistics show that the time taken to determine renewable applications has improved, delays in securing grid connections and uncertainty over future funding continue to stall development, warns Nick Green, head of Savills Energy in Scotland. The scheduled 10% degression in Feed-in Tariff rates in October 2014 for all non-solar renewable […]
Prime Minister: growth in solar opportunity for sector and wider economy
Prime Minister David Cameron has said that solar “has the potential to play a valuable part of the UK’s renewable energy mix” in response to a letter from a coalition of over 150 businesses from the solar industry and beyond who came together last month to warn David Cameron of the threat to Britain’s thriving […]
Conergy prepares for next phase of UK solar, rebrands Wirsol Solar UK
The Conergy Group, one of the world’s leading downstream solar companies, announced today further steps in the integration of Wirsol Solar UK, which the company acquired in January this year to create one of the UK’s five biggest companies in the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of large solar plants. From today the developer Wirsol Solar UK, which built the […]
State of Hawaii advances BioTork Agricultural and Energy Initiative
The State of Hawaii recently passed legislation to assist in funding a zero-waste project that converts crops, crop residues, dedicated energy crops, and agricultural waste into economically and environmentally sustainable biofuels and value-added co-products. Hawaiis Department of Budget and Finance is now authorized, with the approval of Governor Neil Abercrombie, to issue special purpose revenue […]
Modern wood heating industry celebrates 1GW milestone under Renewable Heat Incentive
Installed capacity of modern wood heating systems under the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) broke through the 1GW milestone on Friday, thanks to strong demand in commercial, industrial and public sector organisations. Modern wood heating boilers burn wood pellets, chips, briquettes or logs and feed the heat into a central heating system or, in some cases, […]
Solar power installations jump to a new annual record
The year 2013 saw record-breaking growth for solar electricity generation as the photovoltaic (PV) and concentrated solar thermal power (CSP) markets continued to grow. With over 39 gigawatts installed worldwide, the PV solar market represented one third of all newly-added renewable energy capacity, write Worldwatch’s Max Lander and Climate and Energy Intern Xiangyu Wu in the […]
Updated specification for renewable fertiliser (biofertiliser) to boost UK farming
The market for certified, safe, high quality biofertiliser for UK farming is set to grow following the publication today of the updated PAS 110 specification. Operators of anaerobic digestion plants that meet the criteria in the PAS 110 can use and trade digestate as “biofertiliser” certified under REAL’s Biofertiliser Certification Scheme (BCS). Digestate is a […]
REA comments on Government reshuffle
The REA looks forward to working with the new energy, environment, communities and transport ministers taking office in today’s Government reshuffle. The association also pays testament to former Energy & Climate Change Minister Greg Barker. REA Chief Executive Dr Nina Skorupska said: “Greg Barker was the only DECC Minister to have been in post since […]
National Grid told to revise solar power figures
The Solar Trade Association is calling for the National Grid to look again at its predictions for solar power in coming decades. In forecasts published by the grid operator yesterday, the National Grid’s statistics on current and future solar arrays are said to fall far below other estimates and need to be revised upwards. Solar […]
