Lothian Renewables are now fully authorized by the manufacturer to supply and install the immerSun intelligent PV switch. The sophisticated device continually monitors the output from PV systems and will divert only the excess power being produced and divert it to heat your hot water via your existing immersion heater rather than exporting the power…
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Domestic RHI Launched (closed)
The Government today announced the details of the RHI for domestic premises. Details here The scheme will provide payments for heat generated by Biomass, Solar Thermal and heat pump technologies. DECC have set the rates at higher than expected which will provide very strong incentives to householders to install. We are currently studying the…
Governments 2013 Spending Review
The Governments 2013 spending review was published yesterday, the Departments of Energy and Climate Change summery looks like positive news for Renewable Heat. 2.67 The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) settlement includes: capital provision for investment in innovative energy projects and £5.3 billion funded through energy bills, to enable investment in renewable energy…
Heast and Bioenergy Seminar
In the fast changing world of Renewables it is always worth the effort to take up opportunities to keep abreast with changes in the industry and this weeks Scottish Renewables Heat and Bioenergy Seminar ticked all the boxes. Lothian Renewables were amongst some 200 delegates who attended the seminar, opened by the Keynote speech by…
North Light Arts Sponsorship
When approached by the North Lights Arts festival in Dunbar to provide electrical power for their festivals beach Hut venue at Dunbar harbour, Lothian Renewables were more than happy to help out by way of fitting an off-grid PV system. The system comprises of a Schott solar PV panel, deep discharge battery, charge controller…
EC to impose solar duties of 11.8% on Chinese solar products from 6 June
European trade commissioner, Karel de Gucht, has announced that the European Commission will impose solar duties on Chinese-manufactured solar products. As of 6 June 2013, a tariff rate of 11.8% will be introduced. On 6 August 2013, the rate will return to the levels originally proposed by the EC with an average of 46.7%. The…
Quarterly forecasts for the non-domestic RHI scheme as at 30 April 2013 5% reduction in Medium size biomass.
The Department of Energy and Climate Change have issued an updated forecast for the non-domestic RHI, the report can be accessed here. As a result of the budget control mechanism which DECC use to control the RHI budget spend the medium size biomass tariff is reducing slightly from 5.3p tier 1 and 2.2p tier 2…
Sun Still Shining on UK Solar
BlogRSS Sun still shining on UK solar By: Alasdair Grainger Far from setting, as one Sunday paper suggested this weekend, the sun is shining on the solar industry here in the UK and investing in solar Photovoltaics (PV) makes real financial sense. Thanks to our Feed-in Tariff (FITs) scheme householders and businesses are paid for…
RHIP Payments increased by 100%
The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has announced that payments for the Renewable Heat Premium Payment (RHPP) scheme have been significantly increased as of today. Eligible technologies under the RHPP will receive the following revised payments with new ‘money-off vouchers’: Solar thermal: £600 Ground source heat pumps: £2,300 Air source heat pumps: £1,300…
Using the GREEN DEAL to help finance PV
Recently released information can be found here on how to use the Green Deal to help finance a PV install. One comment – the suggested price for a 4kWp sytem is high!