One school in Cornwall uses solar PV for heating Gym and Swimming Pool

The Truro school located in Cornwall is one of the pioneers walking towards the brave new world of green energy, they invested in one of the largest installations of solar panels in the UK, a roof hosted solar PV array capable of delivering 85kWp. 

The solar panels are hosted on the roofs of the Gym class and the swimming pool and the system consists of over 330 ReneSolar modules, working together with Power One Aurora inverters.

 The project will help the school to reduce the costs of the electricity bill every year and also will contribute to a greener environment, at least that's the theory with the carbon footprint.

Renewable Energy Co-operative took care of the installation, they are of course, part of the Co-operatives UK, I don’t know about you folks but that sounds a little bit like USSR and socialism, they were obsessed with co-operativisation.

 Anyway, 2012 was the international year of Co-Operatives, again, sounds like international socialism to me, but maybe I am a little bit paranoid, I just don't like the rhetoric.

 The idea behind this concept was to grow the Gross Domestic Product from the co-operative sector to 20 percent, from the 2 percent in the present.

 Mr. Abe Cambridge, the Technical Director of Renewable Energy Co-operative stated that:

"As a co-operative we abide by the co-op principles that emphasize the importance of working in the education sector. R-ECO has now installed over a quarter of a MW on schools alone and we hope to do many more!"

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Antaris Solar is showcasing the new eKiss PV system

The German company Antaris Solar will present the new portable PV-System called eKiss at the Solar Power 2012 event which takes place in Birmingham this week. It is a stand alone device, actually a portable one who can help you stay off the grid at any time and any place.
The eKiss system is hosted on booth b36, visitors are welcome to pay a visit and take a "test drive" with the new eKiss gadget.

 Even if the UK market is not very friendly, with the reduced feed-in-tariffs and fierce competition, not to mention a lot of bankrupt companies in this area of business, Antaris Solar thinks that the British market has room to grow and offer opportunities for business in the future. Also, the company feels confident about its perspectives, being very efficiently structured, with a good balance sheet and part of Goede Group, an international company specialized in direct marketing and benefiting from sharing resources with sister companies. All these will help in saving costs and assure financial flexibility, translating in the best prices of the products/services.

 Antaris Solar also provides state of the art quality standards, the latest and the greatest in solar energy technology and also reliability, they offer 12 years of warranty on their products and 30 years performance warranty.  Being an international company, Antaris Solar both manufactures and sales in the whole world  its great products, they offer anything you can imagine in the photo voltaic field of business, both the new eKiss system and also the mini eKiss which is no bigger than a briefcase. They are very easy to operate and offer  great flexibility in terms of energy generation and also storage, you can use them anytime anywhere, even on camp sites or in a shed where you don't have access to the power grid.

 These systems can be used both by private individuals and groups like churches or government agencies who wish to help families or businesses  in generating electricity in the developing countries or in rural areas.
 The eKiss(Keep it simple & safe) system is available in four versions capable of delivering from 350 to 2000 wats, it's a very simple and intuitive to operate device, also trouble and maintenance free, it uses AGM batteries for storing power. They can be used to operate refrigerators, laptops, communications systems and so on, they offer great versatility.

 In the words of Mr. Andrew Moore, Antaris Solar's International Sales Manager:

 “As we all know, the PV market is challenging these days and politics is doing a good job in creating obstacles that PV companies have to overcome. However, Antaris Solar proves that efficient company structures and international market presence, combined with high quality products, innovation and competitive pricing are the key to success, even when market conditions are challenging. With our expanding partner network throughout the United Kingdom and our expert British distributors, we are confident that Antaris Solar will grow into the leading German PV supplier in the UK.”

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Green Energy Lendings Triple, says the Co-operative Bank

The Co-operative Bank just announced that its business in the solar energies products it has funded soared in 2012, it was a very good year in terms of demand from entrepreneurs which were looking for investing in this  area, the amount of lending almost triple in this period.

 As as we speak, the Co-operative Bank lent ~230 million pounds in the first 2 quarters of 2012 and the expectations are high for the rest of the year, there is no sign in diminishing of demand for such financial products.

 As mr. James Sutcliffe, Renewable Energy Manager at The Co-operative Bank,  eloquently said:

“We have seen the UK public begin to embrace renewable energy as a viable alternative to traditional energy sources and nowadays it is not only companies who are investing in renewable energy projects.”

“The Co-operative Bank continues to fund a large number of community renewable energy schemes, where profits are invested back into the communities that own them, in some cases with projected incomes of millions of pounds over 20 years. At a time when many communities are fighting for survival from the wider economic challenges, small to medium renewable energy schemes provide them an opportunity for communities to become sustainable, creating local jobs and diversifying local economies.”

The Co-operative bank has a long term project for investing in solar energies, part of the Group's Ethical Plan, launched in 2007 and it expects to lend 1 billion pounds until 2020 in this business sector.
 The plan is also keen to  support local communities in building and developing their own sustainable energy projects.

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