Press Releases
Solar power set to become highly profitable form of long term investment, earning homeowners 10% p.a.
From August until April of 2010, homeowners can take advantage of two overlapping Government incentives encouraging people to generate their own electricity. Households that install a solar PV system in this window period will be able to access a grant of up to £2,500 and also benefit from £1,000 a year when the “clean energy cash back” scheme, announced in the recent consultation paper, is launched.
Solarcentury Welcomes Government's "clean energy cash back" scheme
Solarcentury Welcomes Government's "clean energy cash back" schemeBut warns that the tariff numbers need to be higher to drive a big increase in investment in solar PV Solarcentury today welcomed the Government's plans for a "clean energy cash back" or feed-in tariff scheme for households, businesses and communities investing in solar photovoltaics (PV). The proposed scheme, which is now subject to a three month consultation period and will launch in April 2010, is based on successful feed-in tariff models operating in other European countries. Key elements of the scheme include tariffs being paid on all generation for 20 years, an additional tariff for exported electricity, a target of delivering an investment rate of return of 5-8% "to make financing feed-in tariff installations a viable market proposition", different tariff rates for different technologies and scales of technologies, and no annual cap on the amount of solar PV that is eligible f...
Jeremy Leggett Launches new book 'The Solar Century'
The Solar Century – The past, present and future of world changing energy, showcases solar applications from the household scale through to great public architecture; from giant solar power stations planned for the world’s deserts, to the most up-to-the-minute technologies such as panels thin enough to be delivered ‘by the roll’, to the potential of solar as a force for good in developing countries.