Solarcentury, UK, Solar PV power for homes and businesses - Ashden Award winner

This video can be downloaded here: http://www.ashdenawards.org/winners/solarcentury Solarcentury won an Ashden Award for Sustainable Energy in 2007.

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Solarcentury is a beacon for the UK's solar power market, showing how attractive, flexible and easy to install solar PV can be, even in crowded urban areas. The company has used innovative design to develop a range of excellent solar products -- mainly solar PV panels and some solar water heating -- and mounting systems to fit a wide range of buildings, including industrial estates. It has designed and installed 550 solar systems across the country, meeting the rigorous standards of planners as well as clients.

Solarcentury's total installed capacity is around 3.3 MWp generating around 2,370 MWh/year which prevents the emission of about 1,350 tonnes of CO2 a year. One of its best known installations is the CIS tower in Manchester with the largest commercial solar façade in Europe.

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[tavdrinker]

great vid. can you produce a video that explains the basics for idiots? if we are to get involved from small 2 large scale us dummies need educating.

[AshdenAwards]

Try checking out some of our other videos, they cover a range of energy technologies.

[wwwHestiaSolarCoUk]

Nice vid. We need all the postive messages about PV we can get to start the industry moving in the UK.

With the FITs even people with little interest in the environment should seriously consider solar panels. Check out our vid of a solar panel installation to see how easy and non-disruptive it is.

[MrTard]

I love pv's. I have a 72 watt array on my shed roof. They charge up a 12 volt van battery that i use to run strip lights, my laptop, mobile phone, sony psp, portable freeview tv, charge nimh batteries of all shapes n sizes and anything else i can plug in to a cigar lighter socket. I can use my mains inverter to run small household appliances too. Its the way forward for sure!

Its been in place for 2 years now & not once has the battery gone flat :)

[Isochest]

The Government need to introduce a system of feed in tariffs so householders and businesses can realise a return on their investment. How much UK renewables manufacturing could the Government underwritten with all that money they wasted bailing out Northern Rock?