Solar Power Solutions

Does anyone know how to understand Part L of the building regulations?  Sun Power UK has an independent list of UK assessors that can provide detailed drawings and analysis of any development.  Private or Commercial. Understanding Part L of the building regulations isn't so difficult as finding someone to make it work! Renewable energy technology solution providers are still struggling to explain their design process. Producing system designs can be achieved with free software so ...More

The Code for Sustainable Homes and solutions for reducing CO2 emissions is not as fanciful as a building developer would make you believe! Sure, all this renewable energy installations is hype, it's not new its tried and tested so why all the fuss?  The fuss is about red tape and cost.  The code for sustainable homes is a complicated set of staged targets house builders and all building developments have to ...More

One of the biggest challenges we face over the next decade is how to install renewable energy solutions on new builds and upgrade the existing housing stock.  Two challenges one could say!   Our existing housing stock could be the biggest challenge as the homeowners need to be convinced there is a real payback for the investment for installing a renewable energy technology. What renewable energy technology to install ?  We at ...More

Renewable energy, such as wind, solar and hydropower, will overtake gas to become the second largest source of electricity behind coal by 2015, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Wednesday. That was under a pessimistic forecast for a global climate response, not taking into account a possible hardening of action to penalise greenhouse gases and support low-carbon renewables -- which would see even faster growth. "Renewables-based electricity generation is expected to ...More

We are not sure who signed this off but for over 12 month the sun has been trying to get through the trees to hit the modules! Why it was installed here is anyone's guess.  Anyone care to make a comment? Let the Sun shine on panels. More