Solar PV developments
Solar power is the skill to change sunlight into electricity and is used as an alternate energy source to power homes and buildings. Solar power is cheaper than using fossil fuels and it is pollution free.
In 2006, the UK was only representing 0.3% of the European total of 3.4GWp and had only installed 12.5 MWp of photovoltaic capacity.
In June 2008 a new programme to encourage homeowners to create their own electricity was announced, which includes a feed-in tariff. This was due to an EU understanding to generate 15% of electricity from renewables by 2020.
Work was finished in Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, on the largest solar park in the UK on 13 July 2011. The 5 MW free-field system was built just in seven weeks after being given planning permission. Each year the system will create an estimated 4,860 MW•h of electricity (an average power of 560 kW) into the national grid. Further solar facilities in the United Kingdom include the 5MW Langage Solar Park, the 5 MW Westmill Solar Farm, the 4.51 MW Marsten Solar Farm and Toyotas 4.6 MW plant in Burnaston, Derbyshire.
Some of the most powerful companies in the world are beginning to implement solar power into their organizations and promote the use of alternative energy. Renewable technology is responsible for over 50% of energy at the Global technology company, Intel. Dell (provider of IT systems and services) uses 100% green electricity at its headquarters and some of its smaller facilities. Johnson & Johnson employ wind power and Solar PV where they can as they think that Green power benefits the environment and also provides the company with a reliable and stable supply of energy. HSBC, Dannon, Kohl's and Deutsche Bank also believe in renewable energy. At its head office in Littlehampton, West Sussex, Body Shop International has just installed the UKs largest single ownership on-roof Solar PV solution.
Solar panels will be provided to over 100 schools in the UK due to the Green Energy for Schools programme. The 1st school in Wales was the Tavernspite School, near Whitland, which received panels worth £20,000, sufficient to make 3,000 kW•h of electricity each year.
An ambitious programme of sustainable energy work, which included the installation of high performance Alwitra Evalon® Solar roof panels from ICB on a new teaching block, has been started by a primary school head teacher in Walton-on-Thames who visited the Antarctic to understand the effects of climate change.
The Ashley Primary School is providing a lesson in sustainability with Evalon® Solar roof panels giving electricity, energy efficient lighting, a biomass boiler providing heat, and eight solar thermal panels warming the water for a small swimming pool and the hot water system, and is on track to receive a BREEAM outstanding rating,
As more and more architects and building professionals acquire experience in the integration of Solar PV systems into the built environment, this relatively new technology will begin to intermix, almost unnoticeably, into the nation's urban and rural landscapes.
In 2006, the UK was only representing 0.3% of the European total of 3.4GWp and had only installed 12.5 MWp of photovoltaic capacity.
In June 2008 a new programme to encourage homeowners to create their own electricity was announced, which includes a feed-in tariff. This was due to an EU understanding to generate 15% of electricity from renewables by 2020.
Work was finished in Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, on the largest solar park in the UK on 13 July 2011. The 5 MW free-field system was built just in seven weeks after being given planning permission. Each year the system will create an estimated 4,860 MW•h of electricity (an average power of 560 kW) into the national grid. Further solar facilities in the United Kingdom include the 5MW Langage Solar Park, the 5 MW Westmill Solar Farm, the 4.51 MW Marsten Solar Farm and Toyotas 4.6 MW plant in Burnaston, Derbyshire.
Some of the most powerful companies in the world are beginning to implement solar power into their organizations and promote the use of alternative energy. Renewable technology is responsible for over 50% of energy at the Global technology company, Intel. Dell (provider of IT systems and services) uses 100% green electricity at its headquarters and some of its smaller facilities. Johnson & Johnson employ wind power and Solar PV where they can as they think that Green power benefits the environment and also provides the company with a reliable and stable supply of energy. HSBC, Dannon, Kohl's and Deutsche Bank also believe in renewable energy. At its head office in Littlehampton, West Sussex, Body Shop International has just installed the UKs largest single ownership on-roof Solar PV solution.
Solar panels will be provided to over 100 schools in the UK due to the Green Energy for Schools programme. The 1st school in Wales was the Tavernspite School, near Whitland, which received panels worth £20,000, sufficient to make 3,000 kW•h of electricity each year.
An ambitious programme of sustainable energy work, which included the installation of high performance Alwitra Evalon® Solar roof panels from ICB on a new teaching block, has been started by a primary school head teacher in Walton-on-Thames who visited the Antarctic to understand the effects of climate change.
The Ashley Primary School is providing a lesson in sustainability with Evalon® Solar roof panels giving electricity, energy efficient lighting, a biomass boiler providing heat, and eight solar thermal panels warming the water for a small swimming pool and the hot water system, and is on track to receive a BREEAM outstanding rating,
As more and more architects and building professionals acquire experience in the integration of Solar PV systems into the built environment, this relatively new technology will begin to intermix, almost unnoticeably, into the nation's urban and rural landscapes.
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