Aug, 2020 update. Nine years on and the panels have generated 17,818 kWh of electricity. The original estimates of what we would generate have proved to be uncannily accurate. One was 1970.072 kW p.a., so 17,730 for nine years. That was based on the government’s Standard Assessment Procedure for energy rating buildings. The second estimate was based on PVSol… Continue reading
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Body builds its solar energy future – just in time
I’m writing this on a grey last Friday in July morning, but I have some defiantly sunny news to impart. The Body Shop has just completed, in 9 weeks, Britain’s largest self-funded (paid for by the company itself) rooftop solar energy system at its head office at Littlehampton in Sussex. 3,840 solar panels covering an… Continue reading →
Tony Blair backs technology to solve eco problems
photo credit: World Economic Forum Now there’s a name I didn’t expect to see, promoting hard from the heart of business for technological solutions to our environmental problems. Tony Blair, former UK Prime Minister. Blair happens to be, his many roles in the world, a senior adviser to US venture company Khosla Ventures. Khosla is… Continue reading →