The Return of 20% Returns!
Posted on January 25th 2012
The Government lost its appeal to overturn Feed-in Tariff reductions today. In December the High Court ruled that the reductions were illegally introduced and after the government appeal today failed to overturn that decision, the FITs have returned to the pre reduction rates below. With higher rates restored, returns of 20% are available for systems [...]
Read moreSouth Facing provide Solar PV Installation Video
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South Facing were chosen by Mitsubishi to install the showcase PV system. The system’s installation was shot on video as a demonstration of their high efficiency PV modules. “South Facing has been successfully installing PV systems since 2002, so it is no surprise that Mitsubishi turned to us to install their video showcase system’ said [...]
Read moreGreen Energy not the cause of higer bills
Posted on December 15th 2011
The body advising the government on climate change, says claims, that the costs of green energy and other low carbon technologies will lead to sharp rises in fuel bills, are wrong. David Kennedy, chief executive of the Committee on Climate Change explains why. Click to hear the Radio 4 interview http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9662000/9662371.stm
Read moreNew school solar glass facade commissioned
Posted on November 28th 2011
SouthFacing installed and commissioned the new solar glass facade at a Cambridge school this weekend, to meet the FIT deadline The bespoke PV glass consists of vcells lamiated between toughened glass – each unit weighing over 75kg. The system although only 2.1kWp in output reinforces our reputation for specialist installations. “Few companies can demonstarte specialism [...]
Read moreEnergy companies crisis of trust
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The boss of British Gas has said that household energy bills will continue to rise despite the company launching a charm offensive to its 10 million customers. The UK’s largest household energy provider has written to its 7 million customers who are not on fixed energy contracts and promised to simplify its complicated tariff structure. [...]
Read moreGoodbye FIT’s, hello sustainable business?
Posted on November 14th 2011
It is of no surprise that the Government has now confirmed a significant reduction to the Feed in Tariff (FiT) says Clive Collison Managing Director of PV solar energy specialists, South Facing . “Of course, Government incentives have helped to fuel growth within the industry and demonstrated the very real advantages of PV technology to [...]
Read moreEnergy Companies charging practices to be investigated by Ofgem
Posted on September 20th 2011
guardian.co.uk – Sunday 18 September 2011 21.00 BST It’s high time the big six energy companies faced up to the anger people feel towards them (Public has lost trust in energy companies, admits EDF, 16 September). Their record profits coincide with unmanageable consumer price rises. Instead of investing in the UK’s energy supply, they’ve made [...]
Read moreBarclays launches £100m renewables fund for farmers
Posted on August 31st 2011
Bank’s business arm to help UK farmers finance renewable energy projects following a massive surge in interest More than one-third of UK farmers want to install renewable energy projects on their land, most of them within the next year, and hope to generate average returns of £25,000 pounds a year, Barclays bank says. The bank’s [...]
Read moreNpower to raise energy prices
Posted on August 17th 2011
Some 3.3 million Npower customers were today facing higher energy bills after the company became the latest utility provider to hike its prices. Average tariffs for gas will increase by 15.7% and electricity by 7.2% from October 1, Npower said, meaning the average monthly direct debit dual-fuel customer will see bills increase by 12.2% – [...]
Read moreUK Government to plug solar tariff loophole
Posted on July 28th 2011
LONDON | Wed Jul 27, 2011 8:52am EDT (Reuters) – The British government plans to plug a loophole in its support scheme for solar power plants which would have allowed producers to benefit from higher tariffs for large-scale plants which the government intends to curb. The Department of Energy and Climate Change announced on Wednesday [...]
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