Friday, 29 April 2022

Cross-mating of Solar DC Connectors and Fire Safety

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Imagine you've just got home with this season's must-have kitchen appliance - perhaps  the Nostalgia Pop-up Hot Dog Toaster ("...
Friday, 18 March 2022

How Safe is Solar PV?

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 Putting the Numbers in Perspective Comparing the fire risk from solar PV with that from common household appliances Recent research has adv...
Friday, 11 March 2022

The Electric Arc and DC Solar Systems

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If you cut a wire in an electrical circuit, current will stop flowing because the air in the gap is a very good electrical insulator so elec...
Tuesday, 22 February 2022

How Progressive Building Regulations Made Scotland a Solar Powerhouse

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  Statistics recently published by the Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS) show how much solar PV different regions in the UK instal...
Monday, 20 December 2021

The Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund – A Role for Solar PV

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Padiham Near Burnley where 108 electrically heated homes were improved with external wall insulation, new windows and hot water systems, and...
Thursday, 16 December 2021

Where Next for Solar PV Efficiency?

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Source: NREL In the early 1990s a research team led by Andrew Blakes and Martin Green at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Austral...
Monday, 29 November 2021

Real-World Heat Pump Running Costs

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Solar PV is a Necessary Enabler of the Transition to Electric Heating  Much of the discussion of the transition to electric heating has focu...