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December 4, 2018

5 Ways You Can Reduce Your Carbon Footprint

The UN’s worrying climate-change report tells us that if desperate measures are not taken to help the environment, Planet Earth will be plunged into desperate times. We need to keep global warming to a maximum of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, otherwise we face the reality of a deep...

November 15, 2018

How Effective Are Solar Panels in Winter?

All summer long, solar panels have worked a treat across the country. The sun shone non-stop (well, almost), bringing fantastic energy-bill savings to thousands of UK homes that are simultaneously doing their bit to save the environment. Good stuff. While this might be a bit of an exagg...

October 21, 2018

Swedish University Pioneers ‘Seasonal’ Solar Panel Technology

Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, has devised new solar panel technology which saves and reuses heat from the summer sun to use once those famously harsh Scandinavian winters set in. The university hopes that it can provide a commercial solution for efficient gre...

October 18, 2018

Solar Panels in the Strangest Places

When people think about solar panels, a particular image springs to mind: complete suburbia, with each home proudly sporting a solar panel system (installed by us, hopefully!). This is a common image, but you’re just as likely to find photovoltaic technology in stranger places than your ...

October 16, 2018

The October 2018 UN Global Warming Report & What It Means for the Solar Industry

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has released an urgent report on the current and future state of global warming, and it’s not looking good. According to the report, the goal set out in the Paris Agreement (to keep global warming to 1.5°Cs above pre-industrial levels...

October 15, 2018

Will Solar Panels Boost the Value of my Property?

If you’re looking to sell a property that has solar panels installed, you’ll naturally want to know whether they will affect the value of the property. There are a few things to consider if we’re going to get answers. First, how long have you had the solar panels? It makes financ...

September 17, 2018

Solar & Wind Set to Generate 50% of Global Electricity by 2050

Every year, the industry research firm Bloomberg NEF (New Energy Finance) publishes a report called the New Energy Outlook (NEO), focusing on the electricity sector. This year’s report tells us that solar and wind energy will generate half of the world’s electricity by 2050. Solar...

September 12, 2018

Majority of the UK Public Demands Solar Energy, says YouGov Survey

According to a recent YouGov survey commissioned by environmental law group ClientEarth, more than half of the British public would install solar panels (as well as a selection of home battery products) to combat climate change – but only if there were greater assistance from the UK gove...

August 30, 2018

How to Get Your Kids Into Eco-Friendly Habits

Raising a child: you teach them how to ride their first bike, and to say thank you when they receive a gift. You help with their maths homework, and you help them learn the value of money. In the blink of an eye, you’re showing them how to shave, or you’re driving them to their school ...

August 17, 2018

When Will Fossil Fuels Run Out?

When it comes to environmental health and doing our bit to help Planet Earth, we’re more educated than we’ve ever been before. Not a week goes by without a headline about global warming, or an article about some emerging renewable technology that might save the planet we live on. I...

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