Time is running out to benefit from the £2,500 grant available to help you install solar or wind power at your home. The Low Carbon Building Programme (LCBP) grant scheme for domestic solar and wind turbine installations will end as of 31st March 2010, but anyone claiming the £2,... [More]

We were recently asked to participate in one of Oxfams campaigns ahead of the Copenhagen climate change negotiations, Climate Voices.  Climate voices has been a global project, looking at how climate change is affecting people, and what they are doing about it.  It is not just the headli... [More]

We made the regional press this week following our trip to Westminster last week, to meet senior civil servents at BIS (Dept of Business, Innovation, and Skills, formally many reincarnations, but really still the DTI!), and then to Westminster to meet some MP's. No surprise we were stood up by... [More]

We asked Kevin Samuel, a local independent mortgage adviser, to consider the financial impact of an investment in the new wave of eco technologies.  His findings might pleasantly surprise you.  Traditionally, one of the barriers to the adoption of green technologies has been the up-... [More]

The good news is that there are grants available to help towards the cost of your renewable energy installation, and better news still, easy and quick to obtain. HOWEVER, for the installation of solar PV or wind turbines most of these grants will end in March 2010 when 'Feed in Tariffs' co... [More]

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Microgeneration, feed in tariffs, solar power, wind turbines, payback, [More]

Hello Now, I'm a relaxed person usually, quite calm, but I love what we do and some things just make me mad! One of the frustrations we have is that there are so many myths and a lack of information out there, about what renewable energies work and where, and how.  Unfortunatel... [More]