Renewables & Heat Pumps in the News - Renewables News

RE: Renewables & Heat Pumps in the News

Jeff — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:59:33 +0000

Be interesting if this results in any wider changes to the rollout of renewables in the UK.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jul/13/lawyers-to-investigate-claims-of-gb-power-grid-cover-up-over-blackout-risk

RE: Renewables & Heat Pumps in the News

JamesPa — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 21:24:36 +0000

the question is: does someone, who has carefully constructed a scheme which protecs themselves from risk, gain anyway, or is this just an unfortunate conjunction of unlikely circumstances?

Are you talking about the Guardian financial support scheme, or the Derril Water solar plant?

If it's about Derril Water, can we please comment on the Solar Energy - No Thanks topic.

There are Councillors in the West Country following that topic, and I can add more detail there. Thanks.

the Derril Water solar plant?

I will cross-post.

RE: Renewables & Heat Pumps in the News

Transparent — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 20:19:01 +0000

the question is: does someone, who has carefully constructed a scheme which protecs themselves from risk, gain anyway, or is this just an unfortunate conjunction of unlikely circumstances?

Are you talking about the Guardian financial support scheme, or the Derril Water solar plant?

If it's about Derril Water, can we please comment on the Solar Energy - No Thanks topic.

There are Councillors in the West Country following that topic, and I can add more detail there. Thanks.

RE: Renewables & Heat Pumps in the News

Batpred — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 18:50:36 +0000

The vaunted blue tab seems to no longer exist. I would suggest the best way of sending feedback is via the editorial email address of feedback@which.co.uk and quoting the article.

The tab shows after a few secs. I tried to reach them including with the chat.

It would be useful to get some info on the survey and focus group.

Some of the suggested solutions they added to the consumer opinions make me smile.. but to be fair, they do not say MCS is enough, they just advise to confirm the installer is MCS registered..

My advice for anyone asking about paying for a HeatPump with BUS is to not underestimate the effort and time involved. Corners cut on the journey can easily lead to a system more expensive to run than gas..

RE: Renewables & Heat Pumps in the News

JamesPa — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 18:14:05 +0000

@toodles @jeff

So I guess the question is: does someone, who has carefully constructed a scheme which protecs themselves from risk, gain anyway, or is this just an unfortunate conjunction of unlikely circumstances?

RE: Renewables & Heat Pumps in the News

Jeff — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 18:00:07 +0000

@jeff Haven’t read behind the pay wall but, yes as a Ripple Investor the Derril Water Solar Park has been a disaster since the start. It should have gone into production a full year back but with numerous (I think, possibly) avoidable delays, production did not commence until earlier this year - promptly curtailed within weeks! I am not confident that this project has been handled as well as it might have been at all. I did report some time ago under the thread Solar Energy - No Thanks. Rewardless, Toodles.

link added

Minimise the paywall window and you can read the article.

You can read anything on the guardian for free, it is optional.

RE: Renewables & Heat Pumps in the News

Toodles — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 17:50:15 +0000

@transparent Thanks very much for setting up the link. Toodles.

RE: Renewables & Heat Pumps in the News

Toodles — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 16:57:08 +0000

link added

RE: Renewables & Heat Pumps in the News

Jeff — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 16:49:48 +0000

I don't know how accurate this is?

Anyone here invest in Ripple?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/12/solar-farm-forced-to-shut-derril-water-biggest-grid-overload-fears

RE: Renewables & Heat Pumps in the News

Majordennisbloodnok — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:49:45 +0000

If there's a member/customer of Which? who is reading this, please log in to Which? and use the Blue Tab at the top of your screen to send Feedback to the Author of the article, Tom Morgan.

Give them the URL for this site.

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Yes and no.

The vaunted blue tab seems to no longer exist. I would suggest the best way of sending feedback is via the editorial email address of feedback@which.co.uk and quoting the article.