Category: News

DECC has recently published its quarterly report on Energy Usage and prices in the UK. The reports contain a mass of information with data from 1978 on certain aspects of prices and usage. The reports can be viewd here.

Scottish Energy Minister, Fergus Ewing has announced a £5 million pound boost to the Home Renewables loan Scheme, which, from August this year can support households by offering  up to £10000 loans for installing renewable heat technologies such as Biomass boilers and Solar Thermal panels. The announcement came on the same day that the Scottish…

July will hopefully bring with it long hot summer days, fires off, windows open – fingers crossed! As we all know the winter won’t be that long in coming our way. Now is the time to consider alternatives to oil or all electric heating systems. Interest free loans and installation grants are currently available for…

Latest figures released from DECC suggest that PV installs have recovered from the confusion caused by the changes to the FITs rates. The figures below suggest very similar rates of weekly installation rates as this time last year as the table below shows. Lothian Renewables have over the past few weeks seen an increase in…

  The Department of Energy and Climate Change has published its response to the consultation on Renewable Heat incentive cost control. The document can be downloaded from the DECC website. The details contained in the document will be taken to Parliament in June and will likely become legislation thereafter. Basically after the fiasco surrounding the…

Lothian Renewables travelled down to Waxman Renewables new warehouse and training facilities just outside Halifax, to see firsthand their range of Solar Thermal and biomass boiler products.  We met with their newly appointed Buisiness Development Manager, James Shakespeare  and  discussed product specifications in detail with Andrew Sims, Technical Advisor. Waxman are suppliers of the Italian manufacturer…

None –  in this case; he didnt have any ladders and Lothian Renewables helped out! Here’s the story – At a recent haircut, got chatting to the hairdresser about the savings that can be made by replacing traditional filament down-light with LED equivalents in this case replacing 50w GU10 bulbs with 4W equivalents with an…

Lothian Renewables visited the All–Energy Exhibition & Conference, the country’s largest Renewables event held in Aberdeen in May. The event showcases the latest from all renewable technologies and provided, through the conference sessions, valuable information on the current developments regarding biomass. The image shows the Windhager Biomass stand with a number of their boilers on…

We have a small write up / business profile in the summer edition of East Lothian Business Buzz.

The picture shows a Windhager BioWIN 60 kW wood pellet boiler at the Windhager training centre prior to training commencing, the picture below shows the same boiler some hrs later!