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]

Solar PV feed in tariffs [More]

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]

Sometimes I get out of my suit, and go help out with some of our installations. It is good to see and get my hands dirty, to experience exactly what issues arise on installations.  It was an easy decision to join the team when we were asked to install solar panels for a remote island off of A... [More]