Solarcentury named a Global Cleantech 100 clean technology company
Solarcentury has been named a Global Cleantech 100 company by Guardian News and Media and Cleantech Group™. The Global Cleantech 100 is the first ever list highlighting the most promising private clean technology companies around the world. Supported by the Carbon Trust, the Global Cleantech 100 recognises companies at the forefront of cleantech innovation offering solutions to some of the world’s most pressing environmental challenges. We're chuffed to be included! The final list represents the collective opinion of hundreds of leading experts from cleantech innovation and venture capital companies in EMEA, North America, India and China, combined with the specific input of an expert panel of 35, drawn from well-respected organisations such as Altira Group, Crossover Advisors, Deloitte, Emerald Technology Ventures, Google, Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, New York Stock Exchange, NGEN...
Solar power set to become highly profitable form of long term investment, earning homeowners 10% p.a.
We're please to announce that 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. A typical solar PV system for a household costs around £10,000 to install with a grant and the £1,000 a year generated in income and savings earns an investor the equivalent of 10%p.a. Unlike other long-term savings and pensions investments found on the high street, the income from PV is not subject to recessionary fluctuations, is guaranteed for up to 25 years and tax-free. Mike Green, a solar home owner from Peterborough said: “Initially we made the move to solar b...
'We Support Solar' photography competition winners
The brief was to take a photograph that conveys the beauty and potential of light in the UK. From a landscape with a cloudy sunrise, or light glistening on window, to a setting sun reflected in a water droplet, any subject, anywhere was suitable... The competition received over 500 entries in this, its first year. Winners: 1st: Jonathan Littlejohn 'The Dawn Commute' Harry Cory Wright, Landscape Photographer: "It has a dignity to it, it's well executed and is full of the notions of what might be ahead rather than what has been in the past. It is sassy too well balanced and all the things a good picture should be. What makes it outstanding however is that all these qualities are centred around the concept of the light itself. The distance, depth and whole meaning of the picture is given a richness by the very quality of daylight that we are looking for in this competition." Andy...
