Beware Solar PV Installation Health Check Scammers

One of our customers a rang up earlier to ask us some where their inverter was located. Was there a problem? we enquired. We ere told there was no problem, it was just that they were expecting a visit the following morning by someone who was going to a health check on their system. The […]

Labour Announces New Warm Home Plan For Solar panel Installations

So the Labour government has announced its ´new Warm home plan´, being brought in to replace the recently axed ECO4 scheme as part an attempt to quicken the take-up for energy saving home improvements in the UK, whilst delivering higher standards of work and advice than homeowners were getting under the old ECO4 model, which […]

Ending free solar panels is a major backwards step for government

I was personally sad to hear the news this week that Consumer Energy Solutions would be put into administration and the company wound down, because following the announcement that the Eco 4 scheme -which promised free heatpumps, solar panels and insulation for low income households- was going to be scrapped, they were unable to take […]

Heat-pump Installations In Wales – Planning Permission Rules Need Urgent Reform

Considering the Welsh and UK governments international legal obligations to reduce carbon emissions -to say nothing about the pressing material need for widespread adoption of low carbon technologies on which these commitments are based- it has always struck me as odd that the normal permitted development rights for the installation of an air source heat […]