Top 20 selling solar panels

A report produced on the 15th October by Lain Garner Associates illustrates the best selling solar panels on the European market. It is important to note that this report is based on volume of sale. Starting with Ying Li, sponsors of the up and coming World Cup in Brazil, they have consistently produced quality in […]

Install: Air source heat pump and radiators

We have just fitted an air source heat pump to a property with radiators fed by an old 8mm pipe system called a micro bore system.  We knew this would be a challenge as there was going to be plenty of sludge in the existing radiator system.  Many of the radiators were upsized to modern […]

Growing demand for heat pumps in Cornwall

Heat pumps in Cornwall are now becoming a popular choice. There are many properties in built up parts of Cornwall like St Ives that simply do not have the space for ground source heat pumps. Bore holes and ground loops need access too and the installation costs in many cases are twice the price. With air […]

Solar PV fastest growing renewable energy source worldwide

Solar panels (PV) have this year overtaken wind turbine capacity worldwide. With 36.7 GW against 35.5 GW, solar PV is set to pave the way as the renewable energy for the future.The market grows stronger as India aims to get its larger industrial companies to source at least 10% of its energy from renewables. Russia, the worlds largest […]

Install: Air Source Heat Pump

Air Source Heat Pump Installation Cornwall

The beauty of an air source heat pump is that it does both your domestic hot water and heating. It attracts the RHI ( Renewable Heat Incentive) which pays the technology off over 7 years, and the savings against existing fuel mean you receive a huge payback in a short period of time. Our recent installation […]

Calculating Feed-in Tariff returns for solar panels

The UK Feed In Tariff dropped in July 2013. It went from 15.44p per kWh to 14.90p per kWh. The Export tariff remained at 4.64p per kWh sent back to the grid. To make this easier to understand, look at an example of how returns are calculated for everything you generate ( The Generation Tariff). […]

Green Deal: Assessment Statistics

9224 assessments completed at an average cost of £150 = £1,383,600 for the  1st quarter of 2013 the result of the assessments has been 245 green deal finance plans on their way through the system with 0 measures being installed to date. Mark Bayley Chief executive of the green green deal finance company says there […]

Green Deal: Interest rates

The Green Deal Finance Company have indicated that interest rates will begin at around 6.96% on top of this there will also be the initial report costing £150 to £200 and associated administration costs taking a typical £5,000 loan repayment over 10 years to 7.67% the shortest repayment term and up to 7.96% for the […]

Heat Pumps and the Green Deal report

Access to the RHPP (renewable heat premium payment) is now available once a Green Deal report has been completed. This is at a cost of £150 to £200 but gains a grant of £1300 towards the initial payments of the Heat Pump, so well worth the investment. There is a waiting list at present here in Cornwall […]

Cornwall to house national solar centre

Bre have opened a national solar centre in St Austell Cornwall  to help guide us through industry standard. I spoke to representatives of Bre this week (28th June 2013) at the Green Cornwall show and didn’t quite understand what the purpose of the centre was. I was told it was to do more monitoring of […]

Feed-in Tariff and the EU dumping tax

The feed in tariff will drop for domestic properties with less than 4kW from 15.44p to 14.99p on the 1st of July 2013. The export tariff remains at 4.5p, although only a marginal drop of between £15 to £20 a year, coupled with the possibility of higher prices on solar PV due to the EU dumping […]

Green Deal: Carillion in Cornwall

Carillion are going to stand behind small to medium sized businesses and keep the work local, keep money in the community, at a time when they have had staff cutbacks their approach is to out source work to local companies involved in the green deal in an effort to reduce some red tape and work […]

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