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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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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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US pioneers use solar and wind micro generation to live off grid

Posted on 27. May, 2008 by ashleys.

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Reuters have a big report on how US architect Todd Bogatay and his neighbours are using solar and wind micro generation to live “off grid”, and making very little in the way of sacrifices to do it. “People used to be attracted to living off-grid for largely environmental reasons, although that is now changing as [...]

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Swansea scientists work on solar power paint

Posted on 25. May, 2008 by ashleys.

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Just a quick pointer to a fairly recent news item on the New Scientist about a group of scientists at Swansea University who are developing a way to paint solar cells on to the steel sheets that are usually used to clad large buildings. Very interesting stuff! Technorati Tags: Solar-power

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Barratt building with micro-generation built in

Posted on 19. May, 2008 by ashleys.

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Barratt’s latest development of three towers in London’s docklands is called the Elektron, (corny name or what). Each tower has been fitted with a wind turbine and PV solar panel array. The development also has a low carbon emission communal heating system. Given that the whole housing market appears to be going south rapidly though [...]

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