British Gas increases gas and electricity bills
Posted on July 27th 2011
British Gas electricity bills will rise by an average of 16% From August 18th. The change will affect nine million households with the average dual fuel customer paying an extra £190 a year. The company blamed the rising wholesale cost of gas, which has gone up by 30% since last winter. British Gas managing director [...]
Read moreBritish Gas fined £2.5m by Ofgem
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British Gas has been fined £2.5m by the regulator Ofgem for the way in which it deals with customer complaints. Ofgem ruled that the company had failed to re-open complaints when customers said they had not been resolved. It added that British Gas had not provided customers with key details about help they could get [...]
Read moreSSE raises energy bills by18%
Posted on July 25th 2011
A THIRD energy firm piled on the pain for millions of households yesterday by jacking up bills. Scottish & Southern Energy revealed plans to raise gas prices for 3.6 million customers by 18% and charge its 5.2 million electricity users 11% more. The move, which will add £170 a year to the typical dual fuel [...]
Read more600kWp, the UK’s largest on-roof PV system
Posted on June 16th 2011
South Facing have completed and commissioned a 600kWp Solar PV installation on the roof of a data centre in the home counties.
Read moreCarbon zero Vicarage
Posted on June 15th 2011
South Facing helps Vicarage go Carbon Zero Redevelopment at Crawford Avenue, Harrow. The Crawford Avenue site consists of 8 houses, 2 blocks of flats, a community hall and a new vicarage. The owners: the London Diocese were very keen to build the whole site as sustainably as possible. To demonstrate this the Diocese required that [...]
Read moreSouth Facing Lands Bournemouth Airport
Posted on June 14th 2011
75kWp New Arrivals Building, Bournemouth Airport Objective As part of Bournemouth Airport’s £45 million redevelopment programme the new construction of a new arrivals building presented the opportunity to use the roof space to generate an income from the Feed-in Tariff while meeting the planning requirements and building regulations. MAG, the airport owners have a progressive [...]
Read moreFeed-in Tariff Cap Confirmed
Posted on June 9th 2011
The Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has today announced changes to the Feed in Tariff for solar PV above 50kW, which will come into effect from 1st August. Those familiar with the Government’s March consultation on this issue will note that the tariff changes implemented have not changed from those proposed in the [...]
Read moreLuton Pioneers energy efficient homes
Posted on May 12th 2011
Luton Borough Council’s energy efficiency homes initiative South Facing has completed the installation of PV systems on selected homes for Luton Borough Council as part of a ground breaking refurbishment project. This required the complete refurbishment of the houses as part of their retrofit sustainability programme. Advanced insulation systems were applied to the exterior and [...]
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