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Due to dwindling North Sea supplies and global peak oil predictions, energy prices will rise dramatically over the next few years, leaving more and more families in fuel poverty.

Solar panels are now considered a good long term investment for homeowners to reduce dependence on fossil fuels and for keeping energy bills down.

" The golden age of cheap energy is over "

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Solar Industry and UK Energy News

  • Why the UK needs solar panels by Jeremy Leggett

    Posted 7 hours ago

    I wish to make nine points in my response to George Monbiot’s latest round in our disagreement about the importance of solar photovoltaics (PV) and the UK government’s upcoming feed-in tariffs. 1. Monbiot argues that “either solar photovoltaic (PV) power in the United Kingdom is, as (Leggett) claims, a cheap, efficient technology, or it isn’t. [...] [more]

  • Solar panels are not fashion accessories

    Posted 6 days ago

    George Monbiot’s attack on solar energy and the government’s “cash-back” solar photovoltaic (PV) market-building scheme paints a distorted picture of the industry I work in, and government policy towards it (Are we really going to let ourselves be duped into this solar panel rip-off?, 2 March). First, Monbiot gets the workability of solar wrong. He says: [...] [more]

  • Green loan energy plan for solar panels

    Posted 7 days ago

    Plans to encourage householders to make their homes much warmer and cheaper to run have been announced by ministers. The scheme, which would see loans remain attached to the house where insulation, and solar panels, aims to overcome the financial barriers and upfront costs people face when trying make their homes greener. Consumers will be offered [...] [more]

  • North Sea oil exploration costs increasing

    Posted 13 days ago

    The UK’s offshore oil and gas fields could still be delivering 1.5m barrels a day by 2020, enough to satisfy 35% of UK energy demand, according to industry trade body Oil & Gas UK – but only if high fuel prices and tax breaks combine to make viable a growing backlog of exploration and development [...] [more]

  • Solar panels are coming to a street near you?

    Posted 3 weeks ago

    Solar panels have always been a symbol of the environmental movement in previous years, but more recently solar technology has become a symbol of energy efficiency and conservation instead. Stuart Lovatt from Heat my Home explains, “Since I started in the solar panel industry in 2004, the only people to install this technology were die hard [...] [more]

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Global energy

  • MIT Researchers Tip Their Cards

    Last week, as part of the 2010 MIT Energy Conference, the institute opened the doors to its energy research projects. Press and other interested parties got a first look at technologies that could one day make renewable energy abundant, cheap and mor ... [more]

  • Australia Revises Renewable Energy Target Plan

    On February 26, Australia's Minister for Climate Change and Water Penny Wong, and the Minister Assisting the Minister for Climate Change Greg Combet, announced that the government would make changes to the country's Renewable Energy Target pl ... [more]

  • Salt River Solar & Wind Invites Customers to Go Solar! at the Maricopa County

    Salt River Solar & Wind (http://www.saltriverenergy.com) invites customers to bring a copy of their electricity bill to receive a free solar quote from Booth #117 at the Maricopa County Home & Garden Show on March 5th - 7th at the University ... [more]

  • Solar Cooling: Proving the Paradox

    There is a myth that we must lower our standard of living in order to avoid the effects of climate change but the reality is that alternative solutions do not sacrifice comfort. [more]

  • Are We Throwing America Away?

    Dan Chiras questions the idea that disposable items are worth the tremendous waste they create. [more]

  • Video: Renewable Energy World Conference and Expo A Huge Success

    Last week, close to four thousand renewable energy professionals gathered in Austin, Texas to take part in the 7th Renewable Energy World Conference and Expo. Attendees took part in technical tours to places such as the Ercot Control Center and Austi ... [more]

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