Thursday, 25 May 2017
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by Jenny Beynon

Making friends over the handle bars

An intrepid group of FEC Energy staff set off from Amsterdam today, to cycle 300km across the Netherlands, as part of an event organised by one of our close trading partners.
Wednesday, 10 May 2017
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by Thomas Wilkins

Medium biomass RHI degressions highly likely

BEIS has confirmed that the RHI regulatory reforms were not laid before Parliament and that the scheme will continue in its current form for now. This means that the 1st July 2017 degression assessment will be based on the January 2017 budget figures.
Friday, 05 May 2017
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by Thomas Wilkins

Continuous electrical supply from renewable technologies

One of the biggest problems with electrical renewable energy generation is the fluctuations in power that can be produced. Solar panels only really produce any meaningful power during the day, when it is sunny, and wind turbines only when the wind is blowing within the set wind-speed parameters.
Wednesday, 03 May 2017
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by Ed Hardy

Opportunities for renewable heating

AHDB GrowSave is inviting growers to an event to hear more about the current opportunities for converting to renewable heating systems in protected cropping, or adding to and expanding their existing renewable systems.
Thursday, 27 April 2017
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by Andrew Morbey

Thrown in at the deep end

I recently started as a Graduate Engineer at FEC Energy and I have been quickly learning the ropes. As a baptism of fire, Tim Pratt took me with him on his trip to Kent earlier this month and it was a great, if steep, learning curve.
Tuesday, 25 April 2017
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by Tay Bishop

RHI Reforms - emergency legislation

We have received an update on the reforms from Renewable Energy Association in light of the general election announcement.
Tuesday, 25 April 2017
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by Oli Coe

Great Britain goes coal free for a day

Friday 21st April 2017 was the first 24-hour period, since the industrial revolution, that Great Britain went without the need to run its coal-fired power stations.
Tuesday, 28 March 2017
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by Tay Bishop

RHI reforms - our answers to FAQs

The recent RHI degression announcement has thrown yet more uncertainty on the future on the RHI scheme. While the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) continue to keep business as usual, there are many questions erupting as to what, when and how the RHI reforms will happen
Tuesday, 21 March 2017
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by Ed Hardy

Glasshouse roofs used to heat underneath

Growers could use their glasshouses to generate electricity through the use of solar glass. Translucent solar panels have been developed by Soliculture, an American start-up company, specifically for the greenhouse sector. Their panels convert some of the sunlight into electricity, while still
Friday, 10 March 2017
by Anonymous

Embedded generators – TRIAD income to be slashed

We are finally seeing what is thought to be the ‘end result’ from OFGEM’s review of TRIAD income for embedded generators and it doesn’t look very good.

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