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UK Government launches Micro-Generation Strategy consultation

UK Government launches Micro-Generation Strategy consultation

Posted on 22. Dec, 2010 by ashleys.

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The UK Government Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC) has today launched a consultation on a new Micro Generation Strategy. The Green Energy (Definition and Promotion) Act 2009, committed the UK Government to a consultation on a new Micro generation Strategy with the expressed purpose to promote micro generation technologies such as home solar, [...]

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Use Micro Generation to beat rising heating oil prices

Use Micro Generation to beat rising heating oil prices

Posted on 19. Dec, 2010 by ashleys.

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The Consumer Focus organisation is calling on OFT to have a look at why the price of heating oil varies so much across the country.  They also suggests domestic oil users look in the long term at micro generation of renewable energy,  home solar or wind power for example. Audrey Gallacher, Head of Energy at [...]

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Farmers Want Solar Power

Farmers Want Solar Power

Posted on 16. Dec, 2010 by ashleys.

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80% of farmers would like to move to microgeneration of solar power.   According to a survey by Solarcentury, more than 80 per cent of UK farmers want to install solar panels on the roofs of their buildings by 2014. Research, carried out in conjunction with Forum for the Future, showed that interest in clean energy [...]

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Good Energy to launch microgeneration master class

Good Energy to launch microgeneration master class

Posted on 23. Sep, 2009 by ashleys.

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Green energy provider Good Energy has announced plans for a series of workshops designed to provide businesses and individuals with guidance on how to install renewable energy systems on their property. The workshops, the first of which will be held at the company’s wind farm in Delabole, North Cornwall on 31 October, will provide attendees [...]

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Microgeneration equipment without planning permission

Posted on 12. Feb, 2009 by ashleys.

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eGov Monitor reports that householders will be soon be able to install some of their their own energy generating equipment, including solar panels, without planning permission following a Scottish Government consultation on planning reforms aimed at increasing renewable energy generation and cutting emissions. Technorati Tags: Solar wind, solar power, microgeneration

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