What the press say

Media articles about Solarcentury, solar power, energy and environment.

Business Green: New Solarcentury boss outlines international ambitions

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Africa, the Balkans and the Pacific all offer potential new markets for UK’s largest solar firm.
09/05/2012

BBC: Deborah Meaden campaigns for investment in renewable energy

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The Prime Minister is being urged to increase the use of clean British energy and reduce the use of overseas gases.
24/04/2012

BBC: Renewables 'help jobs and growth'

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The renewable energy industry supports 110,000 jobs in the UK and could support 400,000 by 2020, a report says.
24/04/2012

Friends of the Earth: George and the Dragon - public backs clean British energy

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Stripped down to its basics, politics is basically a popularity contest. Party leaders pore over polling data and personal ratings. So the mood at Number 10, where I handed in our Final Demand petition just a few weeks ago, must be relative...
23/04/2012

The Guardian: Are the London markets doomed to fail - again?

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A quarter of a century ago, three years before the Berlin Wall collapsed – with brightly painted fragments turning up in our London office the very next day – I investigated the prospects for sustainable capitalism in The Gree...
12/03/2012

The Guardian: Feed-in tariff sees solar panel installation breakthrough

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Explosive growth in solar panel installations on homes, schools and fields in the UK over the past 22 months saw the green energy source pass the symbolic milestone of 1,000MW on Wednesday.
12/03/2012

The Mirror: Government's solar energy cuts illegal, High Court rules

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Energy Secretary Chris Huhne’s planned cuts to solar energy subsidies were yesterday ruled illegal by the High Court.
22/12/2011

WWF: The Energy Report - 100% renewables by 2050

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Two years in preparation, The Energy Report presents a provocative scenario,set in 2050,of a world run entirely on renewable energy.
15/12/2011

The Sunday Times: 74% of UK want more solar power

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A new YouGov poll run by The Sunday Times has shown that the UK wants to see far higher solar and wind ambitions.
15/12/2011

The Huffington Post: Solar in the UK - Jeremy Leggett

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Across Britain at the moment thousands of solar installers are out on roofs and in fields, racing in often dire weather to beat a deadline, the 12th December. That is when the UK government intends to halve the feed-in tariff, the policy...
10/12/2011