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Champagne moment as solar company reach landmark

Leading renewable energy company Caplor Energy has today celebrated reaching the 1 megawatt mark for solar photovoltaic (PV) systems installed in Herefordshire.   Caplor Energy marked the occasion by presenting the company’s most recent customer – and the man who purchased the PV system that reached the 1MW milestone – with a bottle of champagne. [...]

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Introducing our new Community Fund

At Caplor Energy, it is our vision to contribute to a vibrant and sustainable community. As a company we are committed to helping local communities benefit from the great opportunities that renewable energy technologies can offer to help reduce our collective carbon emissions as a County. It’s a key theme to our business and is [...]

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DECC loses feed in tariff appeal

On Wednesday 25th January, the Court of Appeal ruled that DECC would not be granted an appeal. This means the feed-in tariff will now go back to 43.3p for <4kW systems installed until March 3, 2012.

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Greendale by name, Green by nature

The County’s first commercial solar photovoltaic system on a Herefordshire Business Park has today been completed on the warehouse roof of the UK’s biggest independent carpet buying group, Greendale Carpets & Floorings Ltd. The 49.6kWp solar PV array, installed by leading renewable energy specialists Caplor Energy, will occupy nearly two-thirds of Greendale’s 25,000 sqft warehouse [...]

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‘Solar heating can provide over half of households hot water’, The Guardian

Solar heating systems can provide over half of households’ hot water needs, according to the largest ever field trial of the green energydevices. But the year-long study, undertaken at 88 homes by the Energy Saving Trust, also reveals that the solar water heating systems will save most owners just £55 a year despite costing between £3,000-5,000, prompting calls from [...]

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