- STA welcomes Government’s moves to boost renewable heat market
- STA: European Commission’s proposals for high provisional duties on Chinese solar panels “very disappointing”
- Changes to FITs tariffs from the 1st of May 2013
- The STA joins associations from across Europe to call on the EU Commission to reject duties on Chinese manufactured solar modules
- Energy and Climate Change Minister Gregory Barker – Speech to Large Scale Solar Conference
Innovative Case Studies
Viridian Solar – New Homes at River’s Gate
River’s Gate is a development of 68 dwellings in phase one, compromising of 51 houses and 17 flats. Places for People, the site developer, aimed to achieve an EcoHomes Excellent rating, so Viridian Solar was brought in to help contribute to this by providing renewable energy totalling more than 10% of the predicted energy use….
Viridian Solar – Islington Apartment Blocks
Inspace is a social and affordable housing specialist, building over 1,600 new homes a year in a range of projects. Northpoint Islington is a development of 47 flats arranged over six storeys. Fifteen of the flats are for an RSL client, the balance of 32 being available for private buyers.
ExtraCare Development- ExtraCare DevelopmentExtraCare development of 52 dwellings at Darcy House in Barking and Dagenham was chosen as a showcase for environmentally sustainable building technologies with a target BREEAM rating of Very Good. The development decided to use a communal heating system which is shared, rather than individual systems in each dwelling
Genersys – Inspace PartnershipWe were contacted by the main contractor, Inspace Partnership [formally Wilmot Dixons] with their renewable requirements late in the project’s progress. Our design was well received by everybody and will provide the site with 6% of its total energy requirements with a further 2% provided by other renewable technologies.
Kingspan Solar – Leicester CollegeAs part of a dramatic overhaul to upgrade its facilities for its student and in keeping with Building Regulations Part L, Leicester College updates its old boiler systems with a new state of the art solar thermal system. The new solar thermal systems provides up to 70% of its annual hot water needs…
Enlightened solar -Lindisfarne Castle
Lindisfarne Castle on Holy Island has had 48 photovoltaic solar panels fitted on the roof in order to generate electricity, the Castle’s only source of power. The panels, which are only visible to those with a bird’s eye view of the 16th Century Tudor Fort turned Edwardian Holiday home for the founder of Country Life Magazine, are hoped to generate just under 10,000 KWh of electricity each year. This could reduce the charity’s electricity bills by approximately 10%, saving 5.2 tonnes of CO2 annually, the equivalent of travelling almost 24,000 miles in an average car.