With or without Britain’s approval, an energy revolution is taking place. The forces that transformed telecommunications are doing the same to energy. Britain’s difficulty is that, faced with a host of transformative technologies, the government chose to throw its weight behind the past rather than the future: subsidising non-renewable rather than renewable energies; penalising ‘clean’ […]
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week ending 24 February 2017
Dear subscriber, Regrettably, with this issue, we are going to stop producing Micro Power News. We started this weekly news summary over ten years ago when small-scale renewables and microgeneration technologies were not well known about at all. Hopefully, in a small way, we have helped to spread information about these revolutionary technologies, and helped […]
week ending 17 February 2017
Transport for London goes Solar Transport for London (TfL) is preparing the imminent launch of a tendering process for new solar installations on its own buildings, Solar Power Portal understands. Plans for a roll-out of new solar PV are currently being drawn up by the network’s energy and carbon strategy team, which will use the […]
week ending 10 February 2017
Glasgow Schools go Solar Seven primary schools in the Glasgow area are to be fitted with solar panels with a combined total capacity of 350kWp under plans by the city council to reduce emissions by 30% by 2020. Each of the schools will receive a 50kWp system to be installed by Campbell & Kennedy (C&K), […]
week ending 3 February 2017
Swindon Solar Council Construction is underway on a new solar project from Swindon Borough Council, which will couple income from 1.2 ROCs with savings from a private wire with the Swindon household waste recycling centre to produce substantial new cash flows for the council. The 2.5MW Barnfield Solar Park is being developed on a former […]