Solarport, founded in 2015 by a team of experts, has become a leading provider of solar ground mount solutions in the UK. Their systems support large scale commercial solar projects as well as smaller scale installations for homes and businesses. We're excited to welcome them to The Skill Group from May 2024!

Great news for farmers and rural businesses as the UK Government have recently announced that the Improving Farm Productivity Round 2 grant (to improve agriculture technology) has been doubled to £220 million.

Libbi is an eco-smart battery storage system, this means it makes decisions about when it provides and stores electricity based on how much energy you use and generate with your solar installation and the energy tariff you use. Myenergi allows you to use as much surplus solar electricity as possible, it is also built to integrate with your existing Myenergi devices such as the Myenergi Zappi EV charger or the Myenergi Eddi.

The GivEnergy All In One battery is designed to store excess generation from your generation source. The energy stored will then be discharged to meet demand when required, which prevents the need to import energy from the grid – in turn, saving you money!

For expenditure incurred from 1 April 2021 until the end of March 2023, companies canclaim 130% capital allowances on qualifying plant and machinery investments.

•Under the super-deduction, for every pound a company invests, their taxes are cut by up to 25p.

•This change makes the UK’s capital allowance regime more internationally competitive,lifting the net present value of our plant and machinery allowances from 30th in the OECDto 1st.

There are still grants avialble to certain installation types.

The EV chargepoint grant provides a 75% contribution to the cost of one chargepoint and its installation. A grant cap is set at £350 (including VAT) per installation.

In less than eight years, the government plans to ban the sale of all new petrol and diesel cars and vans and as part of this shift is promising to expand the network of public charging points to 300,000.

This means, in order to help the UK meet its 2050 net zero target, electric vehicles (EVs ) will soon become the most common option for anyone wanting to buy a brand new car.

Householders are discovering the stark reality of rising energy bills as emails from suppliers reveal how much more they will pay from April.

New research by Energy Saving Trust has found that energy bills could rise by £240 in 2022 for a typical three-bedroom, gas-heated home, with this household projected to spend a total £1,360 on energy.

In this article we want to explain how a solar panel system works in your home and what the different parts are and how they work.

In 2005 the Government introduced electrical safety rules into the Building Regulations for England and Wales. Because of this, most fixed electrical installation work in homes must, by law, meet the Building Regulations.

Part P states that anyone carrying out electrical installation work in a home must make sure that the work is designed and installed to protect people from fire and electric shocks.

This tool provides estimates for fuel bill saving and financial payments you may receive by installing a solar photovoltaic (i.e. solar PV) system. These figures are based on information you provide, using a number of assumptions to indicate potential benefits. This is to help you decide whether a solar PV system is suitable for you.

Use of the tool and its outputs is not a guarantee that you will see the exact same fuel bill savings and financial payments from the installation of your planned system.

Energy Saving Trust is an independent organisation – working to address the climate emergency.

A respected and trusted voice on energy efficiency and clean energy solutions, we continue to work towards a smart, decarbonised, decentralised energy system.

MCS, and the industry it works with, face interesting times.

The UK domestic renewable energy sector has radically changed since our organisation was formed in 2007. Since then nearly 1.2 million homes have been fitted with renewable energy technology and the cost of installations has dropped by approximately 65%.

Whilst hugely positive, these changes have led to some immediate challenges for us and our sector, as the UK Government has amended its renewable energy policies away from consumer incentives.

An international team of scientists have identified a new process using coordination materials that can accelerate the use of low-cost, Earth-abundant materials with the potential to transform the energy sector by replacing silicone-based solar panels.

The use of solar panels as an alternative source of energy and power has been embraced across the globe. This is because using solar energy reduces the level of emissions in the atmosphere in addition to being a reliable source of energy. Over time, however, solar panels accumulate dirt, which reduces their energy accumulation and production efficiency. To deal with this, solar panels are cleaned on a regular basis, which is usually after a week or so.

Heat pumps are a lot less complex than you might imagine, and usually any problems experienced are because the heat pump was set up incorrectly – not because it’s faulty. This can be daunting if you’re not particularly technically minded, or if you moved into the property and never had the system explained to you properly.

The term ‘hybrid heat pump’ refers to a system that uses a heat pump alongside another heat source. Typically, it describes fitting a heat pump alongside a fossil fuel (gas, oil or LPG) boiler. This boiler could be an existing boiler, or you could be considering installing a new boiler at the same time as the heat pump.

A heat pump captures heat from outside and moves it into your home. It uses electricity to do this, however the quantity of heat delivered into your home is greater than the quantity of electricity used to power the system.

As a heat pump captures heat that is already present in the environment, the system itself emits no carbon dioxide emissions.

An air-to-water heat pump transfers heat from the outside air to water, which heats your radiators or underfloor heating. It can also heat water stored in a hot water cylinder for your hot taps, showers and baths.

Heat from the air is absorbed into a fluid. This fluid then passes through a heat exchanger into the heat pump, which raises the temperature and then transfers that heat to water.