Why the design of your Solar PV Installation is the most important aspect for maximising your return on investment. (Part I)
This is a topic ive been meaning to address for some time. It’s something which customers ignorant of how important a highly knowledge and skilled designer to a successful solar pv installation, rarely ask about a great deal. After all, so much of the marketing they get bombarded with on TV or via the internet, […]
Heat pump restrictions finally being removed in Wales
So the Welsh Assembly Government (WAG) are finally scrapping the crazy 3 meters from a boundary rule pertaining to the permitted development rights of householders, and the requirement for them to apply for planning permission in advance if they wished to install an air-source heat pump on their property. If the proposed location is less […]
Customer loss thousands after IKEA Solar collapse – what are the lessons?
Reading through the Guardian online this morning when a headline caught my eye: ¨We lost £3,000 after collapse of Ikea’s solar panel installer¨. Of course it’s very sad for all the people involved. It never ceases to amaze me that people actually buy solar equipment from large corporations; the utility providers are bad enough – […]
Mam & Dad´s new life in Portugal (and why they’re getting their second Solar PV installation in 2 years).
My parents moved to Portugal recently, after living in Spain for the past 25 years. In fact, I had quite the surprise one morning a few weeks ago when my Dad whatsapped me with a quotation for a solar installation and wanted me to check it was a good deal before going ahead -all within […]
With the planet burning, a ban on disposable BBQ´s just wont cut it.
Parliament starts back today after a lengthy recess, although listening to MP-s talk this past few weeks, you’d almost swear that this summer never happened. Temperature records all over the country -as with the rest of the world- being broken over and over again; prolonged droughts leading to widespread crop damage and reduced yields, billions […]
Labour´s New Warm Home Plan: Underwhelming & Uninspired
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 […]
You have the perfect house for Solar! (And why your roof facing east-west doesn’t really matter)
Did you know that you have the perfect house for money saving solar panels? That’s because the perfect house for solar is the house you are living in. Panels anywhere else wont save you any money. So our headline statement is literally 100% correct. Some homes however, are more perfect than others… We frequently hear […]
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 […]
A visit to one of my old customers in Reynoldston
I went knocking doors in Reynoldston last week, and walking up through one of the oldest parts of the Village, I noticed a job that looked way better than any of the other installations I´d seen in the vicinity. The visible part of the system -the way the panels were configured on the roof- had […]
Don’t worry, you haven´t missed the solar boat.
I went out with the canvassers for a couple of hours last week to train up a new team member, and something that came up with people on the doors -at least 3 people in 2 hours- was that somehow, they’d ´missed the boat´ when it came to getting solar panels installed. According to this […]