Incorporating C21e tiles into new housing developments offers many benefits for the developer. Improve your chances of gaining planning permission Incorporating C21e solar tile...

Solar PV is a solar electric technology. It is not the same as solar thermal technology, which harnesses heat from the sun and is usually used to heat water. Solar PV generates electricity dire...

Integrated PV Building-integrated PV (BIPV) is seamless and cost-effective because the solar products save on the conventional products (roofing, facades and canopies) whic...

Having a solar roof is equivalent to having your very own power source. It is a great selling point for a house, one of our first installations was sold for £10,000 above the asking price just...

People want PV The Energy Saving Trust revealed on the 27th March 2006 that nearly 7 out of 10 Britons believe that homes boasting energy saving features are worth paying more...

Solar PV generated power could provide 10,000 times more energy than the world currently uses. If we covered a small fraction of the Sahara desert with PV, we could generate all the world&...

Solar chemical Solar chemical refers to a number of possible processes that harness solar energy by absorbing sunlight in a chemical reaction in a way similar to photosynth...

The global market for solar PV is expanding at 30% p.a. and this expansion is pushing prices down at an average of 5% p.a. This virtuous cycle has been fuelled by a number of factors including:...

Grid Connected The most popular type of solar PV system for homes and businesses. The solar system is connected to the local electricity network allowing any excess solar e...

Electricity can be generated from solar energy in two ways. The first is to capture heat from the sun and use this to power a conventional turbine or generator. The other is to use the photovol...