Village Community Hall in UK gets photovoltaic solar panels
Source. DEAdirect.com, 23.10.2008
http://www.deadirect.co.uk/News/Micro-Generation/October-2008/
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A village community hall in the Lake District has been equipped with a photovoltaic roof as part of a £100,000 refurbishment. The new roof has been paid for through donations and grants including the Lake District National Park and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Based on silicon, the photovoltaic solar panels convert the sun’s light into energy, which could be used to power the Lowick Community Hall directly or be fed into the national grid.
Plans unveiled by Ed Miliband, secretary of state for energy and climate change, could make similar installations more cost effective. Last week he committed the government to introducing feed-in tariffs for small scale renewable generation projects.
This would see organisations or individuals who generate electricity from renewable sources paid a guaranteed above-market rate for the energy they sold the grid. As well as helping people pay for their energy bills – in some case people with microgeneration could even earn money instead of just using their system to pay for their energy consumption – the initiative is designed to help the UK meet the target of generating 15 per cent of electricity from renewables by 2020.