The Energy and Climate Change Minister, Mr. Greg Barker has officially announced the BRE National Solar Centre, also known as NSC.
The National Solar Centre will be placed in St Austell, Cornwall, and its purpose will be to help the industry to achieve its ambitions for new renewable technologies, as they were recently published in the renewable roadmap.
The financing for the NSC project was assured with European Union money but also with the help of the authorities, both the locals from Cornwall City Council and the United Kingdom's central government.
The Energy and Climate Change Minister, Mr. Barker took a ferm position at the launch of the National Solar Centre, he said:
“Solar is an exciting and rapidly growing clean, green source of power and has a valuable part to play in the UK’s energy mix.
"The new Cornwall based National Solar Centre will help drive down costs, improve efficiency, catalyse growth, spur innovation and develop expertise on the ground.
“We have seen dramatic reductions in costs of the technology over the past year and that’s why we have made changes to our incentives under feed-in tariffs and the Renewables Obligation, to help put this industry on a more sustainable footing and ensure solar continues to thrive in the future."
One of the main objectives of the NSC is to work with organisations outside the traditional scope of the industry in order to educate the public about the solar energy(renewable energies generally) ever growing potential and also to make them available and well understood.
The man behind the idea of the Centre and one of its main developers, Mr. Nick Tune, who also is the Director of the Building Research Establishment, told us:
“The centre will help the sector deliver further reductions so solar PV can become competitive with other low-carbon electricity sources. There are significant opportunities to support the development of building-integrated PV products and the interaction of PV with commercial buildings.
”We will also look at issues around smart grids, storage, power output prediction and more – all critical factors for improving the long term performance of the technology and creating confidence in its future.”
Looking forward to the grand opening of the BRE National Solar Centre, as it is expected for April of 2013.
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