May 3, 2017 | Battery Storage, F.I.T, Government Funding
A consumer protection scheme for domestic renewables has revealed that it received at least one complaint a week during 2016 related to battery storage, half of which concerned mis-selling practices. Renewable Energy Consumer Code (RECC), which this week extended its...
Mar 26, 2017 | Domestic RHI, Government Funding
As promised the Government has started the process in Parliament of confirming funding for the Domestic RHI subsidies budget for new Renewable Heat installations until 2021 along with some great improvements but also some new restrictions. These changes will be...
Dec 17, 2015 | Domestic Solar, F.I.T, Government Funding
Domestic solar installations up to 10kW in size will receive a feed-in tariff rate of 4.39p/kWh when the new rates come into force after the Department of Energy and Climate Change published the eagerly anticipated results of its consultation. The new rates are as...
Nov 12, 2015 | F.I.T, Government Funding
New research conducted by Imperial College London (ICL) has revealed that consumers in the UK will miss out on cheaper electricity because of government cuts to clean energy subsidies. The study, published in the Nature Materials journal, shows that as solar and wind...
Nov 12, 2015 | Commercial RHI, Domestic RHI, F.I.T, Government Funding
Scotland’s energy minister Fergus Ewing has accused the UK government of complacency a week after National Grid was forced to issue an urgent request for more electricity. Last Wednesday a spike in energy usage resulted in a shortfall and National Grid issued an...
Nov 1, 2015 | Battery Storage, Commercial Solar, Domestic Solar, Government Funding
The UK government could deliver cheaper electricity bills to households and businesses by pursuing a decentralised energy strategy with solar and storage at its centre, a new report has claimed. ‘The Decentralised Energy Transition’ report has been co-authored by...
