There are a great number of grants and other sources of funding available to homeowners, businesses and not for profit organisations which make renewable energy installations a lot more viable and cost effective that people often think. A summary of the major grants and funding available to homeowners, businesses and not for profit organisations like [...]

Biomass is the burning of renewable materials like wood pellets, chips and logs to produce both heat and hot water; whether this is for powering a central heating systems and hot water boilers or merely providing heat for a single room.
How does biomass work?
Biomass boilers and stoves work simply by burning renewable sources of fuel [...]

When looking for photovoltaic installers or solar panel installers it is important that you look for a company or person who is MCS registered in order to assure that your solar panels or photovoltaic panels are installed correctly. MCS stands for Microgeneration Certification Scheme  that certifies microgeneration products and installers in accordance with consistent standards.
Photovoltaic installation can [...]

Previously, we looked at Feed In Tariffs, looking and what they were and their implications if they were introduced in the UK.
Recently it has been announced that a feed in tariff scheme under the name ‘Clean Energy Cashback’ will be introduced in the UK, starting in April 2010. Detailed proposals  have been release into what [...]

Following previous posts examining Solar Panels and what different types of solar panels are, we move on to looking at some popular uses for solar panels. One of the most widely used techniques to save money on utility bills and reduce your carbon footprint is by using solar panels as part of a solar water [...]

 
The second type of Solar Panels are Solar thermal collectors are devices designed to collect and use the heat given off by the sun to create renewable energy. This technique of using the suns heat to heat something else in order to create renewable energy is used on a smaller domestic scale with solar water [...]

 
The term ‘Solar Panel’ refers to one of two devices that collect energy from the sun. The most commonly known and used device are called Photovoltaic Modules. These are the things that we are seeing more and more of on the rooftops of people’s houses and on rooftops of business premises. Solar Panels or Photovoltaic [...]