MCS have published a new issue of the MCS001 standard. The most significant change in Issue 2...
Posted: 10 December, 2013
Report highlights positive customer satisfaction in small scale renewables The Renewable Energy Consumer Code (RECC) has “good, well managed and effective processes” to protect domestic customers of renewable energy equipment, according to an audit report recently published by the...
Posted: 6 December, 2013
The Energy Saving Trust (EST), Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) and the microgeneration industry have been working together to produce guides that can help inform potential consumers of microgeneration installations...
Posted: 28 October, 2013
The October 2013 Newsletter can be accessed below ...
Posted: 10 October, 2013
In preparation for the launch of the domestic Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) MCS has agreed with the DECC that all MCS compliant installations installed since 15th July 2009, but not yet registered on the MCS Installation Database (MID), must be registered on the MID by 4pm 22nd October 2013...
Posted: 4 September, 2013
Floyd Lewis, 36, traded under his Poole-based companies Totally Solar and Advanced Solar, neither of which were members of RECC. Customers were misled about the systems Lewis sold, which were not able to benefit from feed-in-tariff as he had claimed...
Posted: 5 August, 2013
Ofgem have published the FIT rates for solar PV installations with eligibility dates up to the end of December 2013. On the 1 July 2013 the rate for PV systems of 4kWp or below was decreased from 15.44 pence to 14.90 pence per kWh...
Posted: 1 August, 2013
Members of the Renewable Energ Consumer Code (RECC) can now be found via the search facility on the Citizens Advice website. Follow the link below. http://www.adviceguide.org...
Posted: 18 July, 2013
Today DECC published the details of the Renewable Heat Incentive to support domestic installations. Basic details of the support is that it will be paid to eligible installations for 7 years and that the tariff rates are: ASHP - 7.3 p/kWh Biomass - 12.2 p/kWh GSHP - 18...
Posted: 12 July, 2013
You can access the July 2013 quarterly newsletter below...
Posted: 2 July, 2013
From the 1st of July the feed in tariff for small scale PV system is to drop by by the minimum amount of 3%. This means that the tariff rate for PV systems with an installed cpacity of 4 kWp or less will now receive 14.90 pence per kWh...
Posted: 1 July, 2013
New scheme will help build consumer confidence The Renewable Energy Consumer Code (RECC) welcomes the official launch today of the Consumer Codes Approval Scheme (CCAS), which is run by the Trading Standards Institute (TSI) [1]...
Posted: 18 June, 2013
RECC members were among the winners of the prestigious British Renewable Energy Awards 2013 Ecohill, a family company with an impeccable customer service record, was a worthy winner of the Installer Award, one of ten awards presented by Peter Ainsworth at the ceremony in London on 13 June...
Posted: 14 June, 2013
Today DECC have announced that they will be significantly increasing the Renewable Heat Premium Payments (RHPP) significantly...
Posted: 20 May, 2013
On 7 February 2013 the new MCS installer standard for PV installers, MIS 3002 issue 3.0, was launched along with the new PV Guide...
Posted: 17 May, 2013
The consumer code for the domestic renewable energy sector has changed its name from the ‘REAL Consumer Code’ to the ‘Renewable Energy Consumer Code’ (RECC)...
Posted: 11 April, 2013
DECC published it's heat strategy today which outlines the timetable for the launch of the domestic RHI. The tariff rates are expected to be published in the summer of 2013 and the RHI will be launched in Spring 2014...
Posted: 26 March, 2013
Ofgem has publsihed a table of FIT rates that have increased due to RPI increases which can be found here - FIT table Worth noting that going forward new installations may not be automatically increased with inflation...
Posted: 26 March, 2013
Provision of Services Regulations 2009 We are writing to remind you about your duties under the Provision of Services Regulations 2009. These duties apply to all providers operating in the UK regardless of where they originate (both EEA and rest of the world)...
Posted: 2 February, 2013
In February 2013, the Solar Power UK Roadshows will be running a series of seven, half-day events taking place in locations across the UK that will look at how to improve the way installers sell and promote your solar business...
Posted: 28 January, 2013
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has today published a review of the business practices of installers of double glazing, home insulation and solar panels...
Posted: 9 January, 2013