There was delight across the solar industry this week as the high court in the UK agreed to hear a case that challenged the coalition government’s planned cuts to the solar feed-in-tariff (FiT)....
Dec 12, 2011
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If you take an interest in renewable energy and solar panels in particular then you will know that there has been a great deal of controversy in the papers recently about the coalition’s plans to re...
Nov 23, 2011
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Key figures from the solar industry are today engaging in a mass protest and lobby of parliament to voice their objections to the coalition’s plans to decrease the current FiT (Feed in Tariff) by an...
Nov 22, 2011
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Revolt is brewing amongst liberal democrat councillors thanks to the coalition’s planned savage cuts on solar power FiT rates. Liberal democrat councillors have found themselves confronted by numero...
Nov 22, 2011
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Greg Barker, the Energy and Climate Change Minister gave a speech to representatives of the solar industry at Solar Power UK a couple of weeks ago. To say that most were skeptical of what he had to sa...
Nov 22, 2011
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Nov 18, 2011
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PV, Photovoltaics – PV Cells or photovoltaics are wafer thin layers made up of semi-conducting materials (normally silicon). Electrical charges will then be generated when that silicon gets light sh...
Oct 24, 2011
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Amorphous – An amorphous panel is a particular kind of PV cell. Unlike monocrystalline or multicrystalline cells (discussed in part two) amorphous panels would not be made using interconnected cells...
Oct 23, 2011
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Despite the meddling of the new coalition government, the Feed in Tariff is still an excellent scheme and the current rates are still worth investing in. The Feed in Tariff (also referred to as a Clea...
Oct 16, 2011
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Solar power industry experts have warned that the blooming, but still fledgling, solar industry in the UK faces the possibility of being halted in its tracks by the coalition’s determination to stic...
Sep 23, 2011
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