COMPETITION: Win and eco refurb worth £15,000
Enter the 10:10 and Great British Refurb "Home of the Future" competition.As the UK is warned of 60% energy price increases over the coming years, one lucky household may escape rising household bills. Solarcentury has teamed up with the 10:10 campaign to offer a solar photovoltaic system to generate clean, inflation proof electricity at home.
Housing providers turn to solar for financial boost in face of Government cuts
Solarcentury helps Brent Housing Partnership open first green estate As you may know, the Government has proposed a new “clean energy cash back” scheme which, when introduced, will guarantee a set price for every unit of green electricity generated for 25 years. If all housing association properties had a solar photovoltaic (PV) system, which can generate 2,100 units of electricity a year, they could earn an income of around £20 thousand per home over 25 years and pass on thousands of pounds of electricity savings to tenants - many of whom are suffering from fuel poverty. Faced with a shortfall of £260 million due to the Government’s recent decision to cut social housing rent in 2010, housing providers are taking advantage of the financial benefits that investing in solar power brings. As well as a much needed income boost for the organisations, solar power helps low-income families cope with...
We win CSR Project of the Year Award
We're very pleased to announce that we have been awarded the Corporate Social Responsibility Project of the Year at the Charity Times Awards 2009 for our partnership with SolarAid. The judging panel described the partnership as one of excellence and one ‘whose mutual benefits were obvious'. Basically, it's because we love Solar Aid! This is a huge honour, not least because of the high calibre of the fellow nominees. The other short listed projects were: Action against Hunger / Carluccio’s, British Forces Foundation / British Airways and CAN and Panasonic Europe. Our Executive Chairman of Solarcentury, Jeremy Leggett, saw a great need for the use of solar energy as a means of poverty alleviation and carbon reduction worldwide. In 2005 we donated 5% of our profits, amounting to £35,000, to found SolarAid. Solarcentury pledged to donate the same percentage of future profits. It is thanks to Jeremy Leggett’s vision that SolarAid is here. And since then, SolarAid’s partnership with...
