Congratulations to Fermoys Garden Centre who are celebrating thier success after winning several awards at the Garden Retail Awards, including Greenest Garden Centre – a fantastic achievement. In April this year, we installed a 250 KWp Ground Mounted Solar PV system for Fermoys Garden Centre in Totnes. Fermoys aimed to control their rising energy costs
Good Energy were celebrating a number of landmark successes in their quest clean and green the UK’s energy supply yesterday in Holland Park, Kensington. Our Managing Director, Mark, was there to applaud the great work they and their CEO, Juliet Davenport OBE, have done in the past decade. The Good Energy team were celebrating: Having
ZLC Energy and Solar Schools ZLC Energy is proud to announce the completion of a Solar PV installation for Millbrook Primary School funded using the Solar School Scheme. In October 2012 Millbrook CE of VA Primary School launched an ambitious target to raise £10,000 to install their very own Solar PV array. Over the following
One of the criticisms of Solar PV, is that the power is generated mostly when you don’t necessarily require it all. The homeowner is probably not at home in the middle of the day to make best use of the peak power generated – so the majority is exported to the grid. This is particularly
Way back in July 2008 the Energy Savings Trust undertook a field trial of installed ground and air source heat pumps the results were varied, ranging from a few installations that performed very well, to a large number of installations which performed considerably less well. As a result the Microgeneration Certification Scheme Installation standards were
After 4 years of promising, it seems that there is a definite timeline for the domestic Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI). Greg Barker announced the final tariffs today and it seems that they are committed to meeting the current Spring 2014 launch date. The domestic RHI will pay owners of solar thermal panels, biomass boilers and
In April we installed a total of 700KW peak of Solar PV on commercial premises. One of the customers was David Salisbury Conservatories just off the M5 at Highbridge. This is a great business with positive environmental ethics to its core. Not only are they ISO14001 registered and FSC Certified, long before the RHI was
ZLC Energy are proud of the efforts of our team on the How Hill project. They did such a good job we have been highly commended in this year’s commercial ground source category at the national heat pump awards. For more details see http://www.national-heat-pump-awards.co.uk/winners/winners-and-commended.aspx by Mark Smith
Mark will be speaking and the team will be offering energy saving advice to businesses attending this Tourism Industry event as part of expowest (http://expowestexhibitions.com/expowest-Cornwall) at the Royal Cornwall Showground on 7th March 2013. If you’d like some really useful tips on taking control of your energy costs or to have a 1to1 surgery session
We were up in London yesterday supporting BRE in launching the new National Solar Centre. As St. Austell’s primary renewable energy company, we are very excited that the town and the county are going to be at the centre of the UK solar industry. BRE announced yesterday that the National Solar Centre will open in
