Just a quick note to welcome Tendai Mupunga to the IWCTE fold! Tendai has an MSc in Intelligent Buildings as well as being a whizz in Construction Studies/Quantity Surveying. She will be heavily involved in specifying systems all over the UK from our offices in Oxfordshire – she will be on email and phone helping...
Our own MSc!
Thursday, March 24th, 2011Feed-In Tariff Rates – higher rates for Homes!
Friday, March 18th, 2011So the government (DECC) has published its recommendations to try to curtail the supposed fashion for huge PV systems sweeping the country. Big problems for systems over 50kw – but for homes, actually larger rates! Read...
PV excitement rising!
Thursday, January 13th, 2011Hardly time to blog these days! The number of surveys is on the rise, and we are getting a larger and larger % making it through our 2nd survey to a full-blown quote. So bear with us if we sometimes take a day or 2 to get back to you, we’re peddling fast!! Roll-on our...
We’re recruiting…
Monday, November 22nd, 2010Feels great to be recruiting right now! Obviously for many sectors, things aren’t great – but with renewable energy so exciting and solar power (both PV and thermal) set to be a key part of this, we hope to be doing lots of this over the next few years!! We are currently looking for an...
Future of the World starts here
Saturday, October 23rd, 2010We were very happy to see Neil MacGregor of the British Museum name the solar-powered lamp as his 100th History of the World object – the symbol of our time. It may seem small, but solar is increasingly becoming the defacto generation technology for the world. Simple, minimal maintenance, easy to install – it works....
It Won’t Cost The Earth passes MCS certification
Monday, September 6th, 2010It Won’t Cost The Earth has been awarded the MCS Certification for both its major technologies – Solar PV (photovoltaic) and Solar Thermal. We will continue to use our network of install partners (themselves certified as appropriate under MCS), but we decided to secure the certification ourselves. This allows us to supplement partners with our...
BP and the tipping point
Monday, June 7th, 2010As Johnny has already written – BP travails in the Gulf of Mexico are not good environementally or financially for many in the UK. But the longer term affects may be even greater – are we at a...
Community screw
Monday, June 7th, 2010The Financial TImes has drawn attention to a very interesting series of projects in the North-East. ‘Community owning the the means of energy production’ is the shout. Developer and project manager H2ope runs the existing hydro-electric project at near Manchester, and now has an investment scheme running for 2 new hydro...
Huhne at Energy
Thursday, May 13th, 2010Could it be that we have a dream coalition is appearing? What would that be? Well there are plenty of views and room for opinion, but Huhne with Conservative pragmatism? Too good to be...
Tory or Labour?
Tuesday, May 11th, 2010Sure there are plenty of reasons to hope the Lib Dems go one way or the other – but this certainly is not a party political blog! For microgeneration what would be...