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Category Archives: Energy Solutions
You may think we’re mad for even thinking about heating with the weather we’ve been having, but now is absolutely the best time to get your heating properly working and fully up to date before the colder months creep in. … Continue reading
Posted in Energy Solutions
Tagged Energy bills, Renewable Heat incentive Premium Payment
Much has been made by supporters of the Green Deal and the EPC (Energy Performance certificates) about the new study sponsored by the government into the effect of installing energy efficiency measures that increase a home’s EPC on the value … Continue reading
Posted in Energy Solutions
Tagged DECC, Energy assessment, Energy Performance certificates, EPC, GDAR, Green Deal, house prices, Property values
A new study has found that improving your home’s energy efficiency rating can add as much as 14% to its selling price later down the line, with some homes increasing in value by as much as £40,000. If your house’s … Continue reading
Posted in Energy Solutions, Green Lifestyle
Tagged Energy efficiency, EPC, Home improvements, Property values
DECC has released its Solar PV uptake figures for January – March this year, as well as a map showing regional uptake from the beginning of the FIT scheme through to March. The popular and less popular areas for PV … Continue reading
Posted in Energy Solutions
Tagged Feed-In Tariff, Solar PV
The Warm Front scheme offered insulation and new boilers to households that find it difficult to heat their homes. It ended in March this year, but a new scheme has replaced it – the HHCRO Scheme. The HHCRO (or Home … Continue reading
Posted in Energy Solutions
Tagged CERO, CSCO, Energy saving, Energy saving grants, Energy savings, Free insulation, Green Deal, HHCRO, Installation costs, loft insulation
The Feed in Tariff for Solar PV changes from the 1st July, and not 1st August as previously proposed by the Government, which has put a few solar industry noses out of joint. There will be modest reductions for domestic … Continue reading
Posted in Energy Solutions
Tagged Energy policy, Energy saving, Feed-In Tariff, FIT, Government funding schemes, Market trends, Solar PV
The frosty spring we’ve had has helped to hold peoples’ interest in insulation – or has it been the Green Deal that is getting people interested instead? In general, searches for insulation on the web (namely Google) tend to spike … Continue reading
The National Trust has made an interesting and potentially game-changing deal with green electricity supplier Good Energy. Good Energy has agreed to pay the National Trust £25-£40 per year for each of it’s member households that sign up to one … Continue reading
Posted in Energy Solutions
Tagged Good Energy, National Trust, Renewable energy
Solar thermodynamic heating is a form of renewable heating that is supposed to produce heat come rain or shine – even in the snow, apparently! Solar thermodynamic heating is not currently accredited under the MCS scheme, but we understand that … Continue reading
Posted in Energy Solutions
Tagged Energy policy, heat pumps, Installation costs, Renewable energy, Renewables installers, Solar thermal, Thermodynamic
Here are a few things you should think about asking when you’re talking to a solar PV company about getting a system fitted: What type of panels they are going to install? Crystalline silicon is the most commonly used Solar … Continue reading
Posted in Energy Solutions
Tagged Feed-In Tariff, FIT, Installation costs, Renewables installers, Solar PV
