The government have today announced plans to revise renewable energy subsidies for solar power. Citing reasons of cost and the ambition to reduce energy bills for the, “hard working British families and businesses,” as well as, “meeting climate goals,” the government’s Rt Hon Amber Rudd, MP, said: “My priorities are clear. We need to keep […]
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State-of -the-art Mitsubishi Electric photovoltaic (PV) modules are now powering cutting-edge automotive research and development at Mazda North America’s Research & Development facility in Irvine, Calif. Mitsubishi Electric US, Inc., a diversified global electronics manufacturer, celebrating 40 years in the solar business, supplied Mazda with 1222 PV modules for a 317kW solar electric system that is expected
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Jaguar Land Rover has completed the installation of the UK’s largest rooftop solar panel array at its new state-of-the art Engine Manufacturing Centre at i54 South Staffordshire. The new facility has been designed with sustainability embedded throughout and has recently been awarded BREEAM’s ‘Excellent’ rating for the design stage of the assessment for sustainable buildings.
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By 2020, Honda aims to reduce CO2 emissions produced from manufacturing their products by 30%, when compared to levels emitted in 2000. Honda plan to put up more wind turbines later this year, by constructing a so called ‘wind farm’ beside their new manufacturing facility in Brazil. That wind farm is expected to generate the
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General Motors announced today that a 1.8-megawatt rooftop solar array at its Toledo Transmission plant in Ohio would be completed next month. The project, which will generate nearly 3 percent of the plant’s overall electricity consumption, will be the largest rooftop array in Ohio. The energy produced will be enough to power 200 homes in
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Bentley has become the first automotive manufacturer, and among the first ten organisations in the world, to achieve the Carbon Trust Water Standard. This comes after the company reduced its water usage by 35.7 per cent over the previous year at its headquarters in Crewe, to 109,284 m³ in 2012. Achieving this reduction, Bentley’s Environmental
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Bentley Motors welcomed a visit by Greg Barker, Energy and Climate Change Minister, to its historic headquarters in Pyms Lane, Crewe. The visit was to find out more about the installation of over 20,000 solar panels on Bentley’s factory roof. During the visit, the Minister met Members of Bentley’s Board and colleagues as he toured
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Putting home-captured solar energy into an electric car can take years off the payback time for solar PV installation – or provide miles and miles of free motoring, depending on which way you view the calculation. Solar PV array size (kW) Energy collected per year (kWh) – 1 Potential electric car miles – 2 Cost
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