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LONDON, England, March 8, 2006 (Refocus
Weekly)
The UK government has funded £1.8 million under
the 14th round of grants under its solar PV support program.
“Generating electricity at a local level from micro-technologies
such as solar panels and micro wind turbines has the potential to
make a significant contribution to the UK's future energy needs and
play a part in our fight against climate change,” says energy
minister Malcolm Wicks. "The successful projects .. are to be
applauded for planning to install solar panels and they will see
real benefits from their use, as well as knowing they are doing
their bit for the environment; I hope it will encourage others to do
the same.”
Since the ‘Major PV Demonstration Programme’ was launched in 2002,
£25 million has been awarded to 236 projects. The program will be
terminated at the end of this month, and replaced by the Low Carbon
Building Programme.
One of the projects is a new train station in Dorchester, which will
replace an existing station and is part of a larger redevelopment
designed to rejuvenate the area. In order to minimize its
environmental impact, the project will install 98 solar modules on a
south-facing concave roof that has been specially designed to
maximize solar gain. The 20 kW of modules will be installed by
Solarcentury and provide 19% of the station's annual electricity and
reduce carbon emissions by 9,000 kg per year.
Gamesa Energy UK is developing a portfolio of renewable energy parks
across Britain and received support to install roof-mounted PV
arrays and wind turbines at the Pen Coed Renewable Energy Park at
Foel, Welshpool. The system in rural Wales is designed to
demonstrate the potential for renewables to fit with nature, and is
one of three sites in Wales to receive funding from DTI's Major
Photovoltaic Demonstration Programme; the others are the bilingual
Ysgol Dyffryn Trannon primary school in the small village of
Trefeglwys, Powys, and Lymm Grammar School in T'yn- y-Felin,
Anglesey, using 60 bolt-on PV modules to provide “an educational
facility that is able to clearly demonstrate to and educate students
in the principles of sustainable development.”
Five projects in Yorkshire, schools in Bolton and Lymm, an infant
school in Caerphilly and Tesco Stores in Swansea are the other
approved projects which will add solar panels to “make valuable
savings in energy costs, reduce carbon emissions and, through high
visibility, promote awareness of the benefits of the technology in
the local community.”
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