Harborough Energy Project at NBJ Officially Launched
Harborough Energy are delighted to announce the official opening of our renewable solar photo-voltaic energy project – a 100 kWp array installation at NBJ Joinery premises in Husbands Bosworth, south Leicestershire.
Officially opened by the retiring Chairman of Harborough District… Continue reading
Climate strike: What is a climate emergency?
Dozens of towns and cities across the UK have declared “a climate emergency”.
There’s no single definition of what that means but many local areas say they want to be carbon-neutral by 2030.
Some councils have promised to introduce… Continue reading
UK to scrap Feed-in Tariff scheme in April 2019
There will be no grace period for those projects in oversubscribed deployment caps queuing beyond 31st March 2019
The UK Government has announced plans to axe the Feed-in Tariff (FiT) scheme from April.
It does not intend to… Continue reading
Higher wholesale costs push up default and pre-payment price caps from April
- From 1 April, the levels of the default tariff price cap will increase by £117 and pre-payment meter cap by £106 to reflect higher costs
- Customers on default deals are still better off – Ofgem analysis suggests that without the… Continue reading
Sun set to shine on UK solar costs
Day 3 of our own solar installation at NBJ near Husbands Bosworth
The cost of energy produced by large-scale solar plants in the UK is set to fall to £40 per megawatt-hour by 2030, according to the latest findings by… Continue reading
….and we’re off
Our latest community energy installation got underway yesterday, 3rd December 2018. Keep watching for updates as it progresses.
Harborough Energy has partnered with local joinery firm NBJ to install over 100kW of clean solar energy in Harborough.
Harborough… Continue reading
Energy price cap to save households £75, Ofgem says
An energy bill price cap of £1,136 a year for “typical usage” has been proposed by the regulator, Ofgem.
It says the move will mean 11 million households on default deals will save about £75 on average, although the amount… Continue reading
Climate change: ‘Hothouse Earth’ risks even if CO2 emissions slashed
It may sound like the title of a low budget sci-fi movie, but for planetary scientists, “Hothouse Earth” is a deadly serious concept.
Researchers believe we could soon cross a threshold leading to boiling hot temperatures and towering seas in… Continue reading
Climate change: Pope urges action on clean energy
Pope Francis has said climate change is a challenge of “epochal proportions” and that the world must convert to clean fuel.
“Civilisation requires energy, but energy use must not destroy civilisation,” he said.
He was speaking to a group… Continue reading
Key ‘step forward’ in cutting cost of removing CO2 from air
A Canadian company, backed by Bill Gates, says it has reached an important threshold in developing technology that can remove CO2 from the air.
Carbon Engineering has published a peer-reviewed study showing that they can capture carbon for… Continue reading