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Watch over the months of August and September as Eco Innovations brings you short programmes showing just how Solar Panels are installed on different roofs.

We will be showing a PV Tiles installation where specially made Solar PV tiles are laid into the roof to interlock with the tiles to produce the most esthetically pleasing Solar Installation. Watch the whole process from beginning to end.

There will also be different ‘Retro mounted’ installations featured, giving you a taste of what is involved in having Eco Innovations install solar for you.

To find out when these programmes are coming to our website and other media such as Youtube and Facebook, sign up to the newsletter now.

Eco Innovations has launched its new improved web site this week offering the consumer a greater variety of products and information on renewable energy products than ever before.

In a fast moving industry,” it’s important that we dont stand still, and are constantly offering existing and prospective customers the opportunity access to the very latest information and products” said Ashley Martin, a Director at Eco Innovations.

When you log in now you have a range of energy saving products for sale, as well as the chance to ‘chat live’ with our staff or call for an appointment to discuss a Solar Panel installation.

The range of products available on line will be expanding quickly, so keep watching, or better still sign up to our Newsletter and we will tell you when we have something new to offer.

How better to find out about all the latest developments in the world of Renewable Energy than to sit back and view a selection of presentations provided by your local specialist?

Well that’s what we thought at Eco Innovations, so along with our brand new Web site which is coming soon, you will be able to see Solar panels being installed, get all the latest information on Feed In Tariffs and much more, without even having to leave the comfort of your arm chair!

Here is a taster of things to come. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw8xhUtRFjk&feature=youtu.be

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Eco Innovations has been accredited with membership to the Renewable Energy Assurance Limited scheme.

This code is in the process of being approved by the Office of Fair Trading as part of its self-regulation initiative.

The consumer code and our set of Consumer Guidelines are designed to help you get advice on generation solutions without any negative marketing/sales tactics, and to ensure a strong consumer experience before, during and after a contract is agreed.

The Consumer Code links closely to the installer accreditation scheme and the product certification scheme. Both of these are run by the Buildings Research Establishment on behalf of Government, and form part of the Low Carbon Buildings Programme. Any member of the REAL Assurance Scheme are expected also to comply with these schemes, or if they sub-contract the work, to ensure that those that carry out the work on their behalf comply with these schemes.

For more information on this and any other reated issues call us at Eco Innovations on 0845 362 8503

The countdown is on as Glastonbury Festival goers pack up their belongings and get ready for what is looking like a very hot week ahead.

Sunshine is never guaranteed at the festival but that has not deterred the founder of the event from building Britain’s biggest privately owned solar farm.

Michael Eavis, who will host the 40th festival at Worthy Farm, Pilton over the weekend will become the first person to take advantage of the Government’s new, heavily subsidised scheme to create an array of solar panels.

It features the feed-in tariff, under which participants are paid for the electricity they produce, even if they use it themselves.

More than 1,100 panels, costing £550,000 and covering 1,500sqm, will be installed on the roof of the Mootel, the barn where Mr Eavis keeps his cows while the festival is held on his fields.

The panels will generate 200 kilowatts of electricity, enough power in a year to meet the needs of 40 homes.

Mr Eavis will sell the electricity to the National Grid at a premium rate, guaranteed by the Government for 25 years. He expects to earn about £45,000 a year from the feed-in tariff as well as reducing his own energy bills, meaning that the system will pay for itself in six years.

Mr Eavis told The Times newspaper: “I’ve been planning this for a long time but the Gulf of Mexico oil spill has brought home just how urgent it is that we move to renewable electricity. We have already bought all the recycled fat from chip shops that we can find to run the generators during the festival and we wanted to create a permanent source of renewable energy. It makes sense to use some of the massive amount of free energy that comes from the sun.”

He said that feed-in tariffs, which all homeowners will be obliged to pay for through higher energy bills, were a “great offer” for landowners such as him. Mr Eavis designed the barn roof to face south and reinforced girders were installed to support 22.5 tons of panels. Construction of the solar array will begin in August, and Mr Eavis is already planning to seek permission for a similar-sized array on another building.

“We will benefit from this. But when it starts generating a profit, I will spend all that money on more solar energy, so it will be a good investment for the nation,” he said.

Mr Eavis is putting £50,000 of his own money into the project and the rest is being funded by Triodos Bank, which invests in renewable energy projects.

Hundreds of other farmers are expected to strike similar deals in the next few years.

The biggest solar array so far is on the side of the Co-op Tower in Manchester. Mr Eavis’s is the biggest privately owned solar array and the largest mounted on a roof.

To find out more about how you can use your roof to generate electricity, call Eco Innovations on0845 362 8503

Here are some excepts from the latest statement from the Coalition Government on how they intend to deal with Energy and Climate change.

‘The Government believes that climate change is one of the gravest threats we face, and that urgent action at home and abroad is required. We need to use a wide range of levers to cut carbon emissions, decarbonise the economy and support the creation of new green jobs and technologies. We will implement a full programme of measures to fulfil our joint ambitions for a low carbon and eco-friendly economy.’

We will establish a smart grid and roll out smart meters.

We will establish a full system of feed-in tariffs in electricity – as well as the maintenance of banded Renewables Obligation Certificates.

We will encourage community-owned renewable energy schemes where local people benefit from the power produced. We will also allow communities that host renewable energy projects to keep the additional business rates they generate.

As part of the creation of a green investment bank, we will create green financial products to provide individuals with opportunities to invest in the infrastructure needed to support the new green economy.

For more information on how these policies can help you, and to found out how a Smart Meter can save you energy, call Eco Innovations on 0845 362 8503.

To see the full article, click here.

Has Cameron bitten off more than he can chew with his 10:10 target?

 

You can say what you like about David Cameron, and plenty of people will over the next few years, but he does not want for ambition.

His move, as one of the first pieces of business for the new coalition, to commit central government departments to a 10 per cent cut in carbon emissions over the next 12 months is both bold and admirable. It promises to reinvigorate Whitehall’s efforts to improve energy efficiency and demonstrates that Cameron was deadly serious when he said he wanted his government to be the “greenest ever”.

It also provides yet another ringing endorsement to the ground-breaking 10:10 campaign, which has proven so effective at keeping the need to cut carbon emissions in the headlines during the inevitable post-Copenhagen lull.

However, while Cameron’s ambition is to be admired, there have to be some question marks over his ability to deliver on such a bold target, particularly given the grievous state of the public finances.

As the 10:10 campaign has demonstrated, cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 10 per cent inside a year is not actually that difficult. Simply reducing heating levels by one degree, turning off unused electrical equipment and giving an overhaul to your boiler and air conditioning units will get you pretty close to the target. Numerous households and offices, including the Department of Energy and Climate Change, have found that emission cuts of around 10 per cent can be achieved quickly and relatively easily.

However, meeting emission targets requires genuine focus and savvy management – something Whitehall has proved consistently incapable of delivering during the years that it repeatedly missed Labour’s public sector emission targets.

It also requires investment. The sums involved are not huge in the grand scheme of things and most energy efficiency spending pays for itself within two or three years, but some refurbishment of heating and cooling units, automation of lighting and IT systems, and employee education programmes will typically be required if an office is to shave 10 per cent off its energy use.

The big question is whether George Osborne is willing to authorise these relatively small investments in an emergency budget that will be dominated by cuts in government spending. Of course, he may make it easier for Whitehall to meet its carbon target by laying off hordes of civil servants, but I’m not sure redundancy-induced carbon savings are what people are supposed to have in mind when setting emission targets.

It is worth noting that when the last government voted earlier this year against proposals supported by the Lib Dems and Conservatives that parliament and central government departments sign up to the 10:10 campaign it was not because it did not want to deliver cuts in emissions – it was because it feared such a demanding target would prove a glaring elephant trap that Whitehall would almost inevitably stumble into in a year’s time.

It is also worth noting that, while he may not be aware of it, David Cameron is not the first politician to hail the “greenest government” in history. Back in 1998, then environment secretary Michael Meacher looked back on the first year of Labour’s term in office and praised the “greenest government ever in this country“, before urging the party to redouble its efforts and maintain the momentum that had delivered a raft of new regulations designed to clamp down on polluters.

The rest, as they say, is history. Labour’s environmental policy drifted for the best part of a decade until the creation of the Department of Energy and Climate Change and the appointment of Ed Miliband as its Secretary of State provided one of the few bright spots of the Party’s last two years in office.

None of this is intended to rain on Cameron’s parade, nor question the sincerity of his pledge to deliver both deep cuts in carbon emissions and the greenest government yet.

It is just that we have been here before, and repeatedly seen demanding targets defeated by a combination political cowardice, corporate vested interests and civil service incompetence.

The 10 per cent target is entirely achievable and it is right and proper that it has been set. This is precisely the kind of ambitious thinking that is required if the UK is to accelerate the transition to a low carbon economy, and it marks a welcome break from the caution that undermined much of the good work done by DECC in the past two years.

But the coalition government must be under no illusions – the target will only be reached if it provides the necessary investment in energy efficiency and the hard-nosed managerial clout required to coerce and bully civil servants into delivering. My feeling is that both Cameron and his new energy and climate change secretary Chris Huhne know this. The question is whether chancellor George Osborne is similarly enlightened – hopefully we will find out soon

Solar panels: a tax-free return of 10pc pa

A tax-free, index-linked return of 10 per cent a year, guaranteed for 25 years may sound too good to be true

At Eco Innovations we are very keen to know what legislation is being created that will affect our industry, and with a new government in place, all eyes are on The Department of Energy and Climate Change.

Davis Cameron made his visit to their HQ one of the first since taking office, showing his commitment to making a difference from the top down. 

The PM announced that carbon emissions from central government will be cut by 10% in the next 12 months. Government department headquarters will also publish online in real time their energy use so that the public can hold ministers and civil servants to account for their carbon footprint.
The PM spoke to staff, telling them that their agenda was “enormous and pressing”

To se the visit and hear what he and Chris Huhne had to say, click below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8yx0VJrlZw

To find out more about how you can make a diference and start generating your own green electricity at www.eco-innovations.co.uk