‘The very unexpected result was the negligible mass loss from high mountain Asia, which is not significantly different from zero,’ said Professor Jonathan Bamber, who also warns that 8 years simply isn’t enough time to draw conclusions. ‘It is awfully dangerous to take an eight-year record and predict even the next eight years, let alone the next century,’ he said.”

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The findings have  been greeted with delight by climate sceptics who have long viewed claims made about the melting of Himalayan glaciers as unfounded and alarmist.

Prof John Wahr of the University of Colorado, one of the study’s authors, warned against this conclusion: “Our results and those of everyone else show we are losing a huge amount of water into the oceans every year. People should be just as worried about the melting of the world’s ice as they were before.” He added: “It is awfully dangerous to take an eight-year record and predict even the next eight years, let alone the next century.”

And there we have it, apparently common sense cannot be applied to the climate change argument, we should either clearly believe and protect EVERYTHING that is modelled, proposed or sugested in support of whichever side of the argument you find yourself.  Surely we should all strive for a rational, “healthily skeptical” position when presented with climate data. It’s just such an unpredictable thing–literally, a complicated system the size of the entire world with a scale spanning molecules, continents, and beyond. The media doesn’t help, either–it’s drive for alarmism tends to overly simplify or exaggerate situations, and perhaps even the scientists involved get caught up in it.

In 2009 the following article was carried in virtually every National daily newspaper in the UK regarding Himalayan ice melt:

The trend is not new. Nepal’s International Centre for Integrated MountainDevelopment (ICIMOD), which has studied the Himalayas for three decades, says many of the country’s glaciers have been retreating for centuries.

ICIMOD glaciologist Samjwal Ratna Bajracharya said this was now happening at an alarming speed, with temperatures in the Himalayas rising at a much faster rate than the global average.

“Our studies of the past 30 years show that the temperatures (in the Himalayas) are rising up to eight times faster than the global average. Melting is taking place higher and faster,” Bajracharya told AFP.

“The melting of glaciers and formation of glacier lakes is a key indicator of the temperature rise. And lately, we have seen massive ice melt.”

So, what could be more  simple to understand?   the Himalayan ice caps have been melting higher and faster than ever except they are not melting at all!

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Data is currently bandied about almost as freely as the insults from the respective camps, in fact watching pro and anti climate change scientists attempting a serious discussion can be equated to an episode of Jeremy Kyle – except the DNA tests on Jeremy Kyle are accurate.  The fact are simply – there is no data which conclusively proves either case.  There are “models” and projections which although based on theories are simply no better than intelligent guestimates.  The other nagging point of this whole pro v’s anti charade is that many of these people (on both sides) are making a very good living from the confusion.

So, as someone whom has no idea which camp is correct, in my humble opinion the real focus should be to reduce pollution – be this through reducing landfill, energy production, efficiency  and new technologies or ideally a mix of all – this can only be a good thing for all of us. So isn’t it about time the petty squabbling stopped and  the millions being wasted on modelling and projections used to debunk the other sides latest model/projections are better employed in furthering new ways to reduce pollution  - is it really any more difficult than that?

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Whilst M&S has successfully introduced the strips across its soft berry fruit range, Tesco will be the first retailer to test the packaging on tomatoes and avocados, which are the food items that go to waste most often, the company says the strips could save 1.6 million packs of tomatoes and 350,000 packs of avocados a year.  If successful, it could be rolled out across 80% of the varieties of tomato it sells.

Tesco ambient salad and avocado technologist Steve Deeble said: “The packaging is a major breakthrough in the fight to combat food waste and could save the fresh produce industry tens of millions of pounds each year. But it would also mean that shoppers will be able to keep fruit and vegetables for longer without feeling pressured to eat them within days of buying them.”

Deeble said if the trials were a success “we could start rolling out the packaging by Easter”.

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M&S was the first major retailer to roll out ground-breaking new packaging which it claims will extend the life of fruit stored in the fridge by up to two days.

The supermarkets add a small plaster-style strip at the bottom of the packaging, containing a patented mixture of clay and other minerals that absorb ethylene – the ripening hormone which causes fruit and vegetables to ripen and then turn mouldy. The strip measures 8cm x 4.5cm and does not affect the recyclability of the packaging, and the retailers claim there is no extra cost to the consumer of the packaging.

Trials carried out in M&S stores showed a minimum wastage saving of 4% on strawberries– during the peak strawberry season this would equate to 40,000 packs, or about 800,000 strawberries. M&S says it is committed to reducing waste as part of its Plan A programme to be the world’s most sustainable retailer.

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Hugh Mowat, M&S Agronomist, said: “This new technology is a win-win for our customers – not only will their strawberries taste better for longer, but we really hope it will help them to reduce their food waste as they no longer need to worry about eating their strawberries as soon as they buy them.”

The British strawberry season starts in April, so at this time of year M&S strawberries are currently imported from Egypt, Morocco, Spain and Israel. During the British season M&S sells about 1m punnets per week.

Rival supermarket Asda, which trialled similar packaging for Spanish strawberries, abandoned a national launch on cost grounds. A spokeswoman for Asda said: “We didn’t roll this out as our research didn’t show a benefit in terms of longer life when looking at the additional cost per punnet.”

Josh Brooks, editor of trade journal Packaging News said: “This is a  great example of how innovative packaging helps to preserve and protect the food products it contains. The crucial role of packaging in delivering products to consumers and reducing food waste through the supply chain and in stores and homes cannot be overstated.”

The packaging of fruit has become a controversial issue. Retailers have faced strong criticism for excessive and unnecessary packaging, but insist that fruit has to be protected with plastic layers as shoppers do not want to buy bruised and damaged items.

The effectiveness of the It’sFresh! ethylene remover has been confirmed in an independent trial conducted by East Malling Research and the Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich.

The data was compiled and validated by researchers Dr. Roger Bancroft (EMR) and Dr. Debbie Rees (NRI).

Funded by It’sFresh!, part of the Food Freshness Technology (FFT) group of companies, the results were signed off last August by Dr. Christopher Atkinson, head of Science.

The report stated: “As a consequence of the effect of wet bruising, soft rots, mould and appearance, it appears that particularly under temperature controlled conditions, both the shelf life and home life of treated fruit is substantially extended.”

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High electricity demands prompted Germany’s network operators to call upon nuclear power plants that had been taken off line last year but left in reserve as a “preventative measure,”

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Following last year’s earthquake and tsunami in Japan, Germany announced plans to phase out all nuclear reactors, and closed down eight of its nuclear power plants that began operating before 1980. Nine reactors currently on line are due to be turned off between 2015 and 2022.

The five switched off reactors are functioning as reserve generators in case the country’s electricity demand cannot be fulfilled from non-nuclear sources.

The March 2011 twin disasters in Japan caused radiation leakage at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, sending panic waves to the countries depending on nuclear power.

Germany faced an electricity shortfall in December and imported power from neighboring Austria to meet the needs, but recent record low temperatures wreaking havoc across the Europe forced Berlin to restart the plants.

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“There may have been a change at the helm, but there’ll be no change in direction or ambition,” he said at the Building Research Establishment’s Innovation Park near Watford .

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“My priorities are very simple: green jobs, green growth and getting the best deal for energy bill payers.”

Davey’s predecessor at the department, Chris Huhne, resigned last week after England’s top prosecutor said he would be charged over allegations his wife took the blame for a speeding offence that he had committed.

Davey said he has “long believed in the need to marry our economic and environmental agendas” and that “greening the economy isn’t just good for the planet – it’s good for the wallets, purses and pockets of every British citizen too.”

He also said that by focusing on low carbon industries, Britain would rebalance its economy, reducing its dependence on the City of London and also on oil and gas imports from unstable parts of the world.

Speaking at the same event, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said that the UK had “every reason to be confident” in the sector.

“The combination of enviable wind, wave and tidal power, a world-beating research base and a proud history of engineering give the UK a clear competitive edge.”

Clegg said that 2011 had seen record-breaking global investment in renewables, outstripping the cash piled into fossil fuels, but that new economic powerhouses such as China, India, Korea and Brazil were now serious contenders for that capital.

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“So the choice for the UK is simple: wake up, or end up playing catch up. In today’s world, the savviest states understand that going for growth means going green. Low-carbon markets are the next frontier in the battle for global pre-eminence.”

Chinese airlines had previously said they would not pay the EU carbon tax, but the formal prohibition by the State Council, or cabinet, puts Beijing in direct opposition to Brussels.

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The announcement, published on Monday by Xinhua, the official news agency, comes a week before Chinese and European leaders are to meet at a summit and just days after Wen Jiabao, China’s premier, said Beijing was looking to provide more financial support to help Europe out of its debt mess.

The Civil Aviation Administration of China has notified all Chinese airlines that, without government approval, they cannot join the EU emissions trading scheme or charge customers extra because of it, Xinhua said.

The impact on Chinese airlines with routes to Europe was unclear. Although the EU’s carbon scheme went into effect for airlines on January 1, Brussels has not started charging them yet. But all airlines using EU airports have been brought into the scheme. Those that do not comply face fines while persistent offenders could be banned from EU airports.

The International Air Transport Association has criticized the charges as “market distorting.” It says the EU should negotiate through the International Civil Aviation Organization to reach a global agreement.

IATA, which represents about 240 airlines that carry 84 percent of global air traffic, estimates the new rules will cost airlines up to 900 million euros ($1.2 billion) this year and rise to 2.8 billion euros in 2020.

“China hopes that Europe will directly address our concerns, in light of the overall situation of global climate change, the sustainable development of international aviation and Chinese-European relations,” the Chinese aviation authority said.

It also said the EU should adopt a “practical and constructive attitude” to come up with a solution that would be acceptable to both sides.

It added what appeared to be a veiled threat: “China will consider additional measures to protect the interests of our citizens and our companies”.

The China Air Transport Association, an industry group, said last year that Beijing might sue the EU over its carbon plan. But the prospect of a legal battle dimmed after the European Court of Justice ruled against a challenge brought by US airlines, saying the carbon trading scheme did not infringe on the sovereignty of other nations.

Although the aviation industry only accounts for about 3 per cent of global carbon emissions, its share is growing quickly and the EU believes its carbon trading scheme is an important part of the fight against climate change.

Chinese state media have called it a “trade barrier in the name of environmental protection” and the foreign ministry has upbraided the EU for its “unilateral” imposition of the carbon scheme.

When German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited Beijing last week, Premier Wen said China might contribute more to rescue funds that are aimed at resolving the European debt crisis.

Premier Wen is scheduled to meet José Manuel Barroso, European Commission president, and other European leaders at a bilateral business summit next week in Beijing.

Although the scheme came into force from 1 January, fees do not have to be paid until March 2013. Supporters believe including aviation in the emissions trading scheme is crucial because the industry’s carbon output is soaring.

Intensifying the protest against European Union’s imposition of carbon tax on airlines flying into their airspace, India, China and Russia may soon respond together with a retaliatory fee on European carriers, making it difficult for them to fly east.

The move, which has the potential to dent the business of EU air carriers, is expected to be announced after 27 protesting countries, including the USA, Canada, UAE, Japan, Singapore and Thailand, meet in Moscow on February 21 and 22 to chalk out retaliatory measures to the carbon tax.

“This kind of measure could very well be applied to any sector. What if it is applied to maritime? Everything coming to India will become more expensive. The very principle of charging beyond your shores is wrong, without bilateral consultation,” said a government official representing India in the ongoing discussions against the ETS.  A  US attempt to overturn the scheme was rejected by the European court of justice in December.

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There are lots of reasons to green your web site, ranging from economical to moral. Since not all energy is renewable and clean, we all have an obligation to go a bit greener and consider our impact.

Here are our 10 of the most effective ways to green your web site.

1. Environmentally Friendly Web Hosting

This is by far the biggest step you can take to green your web site. Web hosting servers consume immense amounts of energy to keep them running 24/7. As this industry grows, many web hosts are clamoring to establish themselves as green web hosting providers.  Instahost.co.uk provide UK based Carbon Zero Hosting on server powered by renewable energy.  Other “Green” service providers can be found at http://www.greenbusinesspages.co.uk

Green web hosting typically involves several of the following elements:

- Servers directly powered by renewable energy.
- Energy use offset using a carbon credit.
- Energy use offset using a Renewable Energy Credit (REC).
- Hosting servers optimized for energy efficiency.
- The company subscribes to environmentally friendly practices.

Instahost do utilise diesal backup generators as our failsafe, however in the rare circumstance that this is utilised, we purchase Carbon Credits.

Beyond these things, companies can do more. But these five are the most common steps web hosts take to “go green.”

2. Offset Your Carbon Usage

Checkout our Carbon Calculator above, this will enable you to calculate your impact, help you reduce your impact and allow you to buy carbon credits!

3. The 350 lbs. Project

BrighterPlanet has launched a program called The 350 Challenge. Any blogger can sign up by placing a badge on their web site. Once you notify them, they will offset 350 lbs. of CO2 on your behalf. This is a free and super-easy process.

This program is geared towards bloggers, starting with a goal of 350 blogs (hence the name). They shattered this goal within a month and now have signed up over 1,600 blogs, equivalent to 122,500 lbs. of carbon removed from the atmosphere. If you do nothing else to green your blog, do this.

4. Join 1% For the Planet

One way to show that extra commitment to the environment is to join 1% For the Planet. This program is for companies who commit to donate 1% of their profits to environmental programs. This is done through a certified list of recipients. With 1,908 non-profit programs receiving funding from 1,128 companies worldwide, this program is really taking off.

Giving 1% is a big commitment but sends perhaps the biggest message to your readers. To date, this program has given £35 million to environmental non-profits.

5. Offer Eco-Incentives to Subscribers

Getting subscribers, followers and return visitors is hard. One way to both green your web site and encourage visitors is to combine the two by offering an eco-incentive. This could be as simple as planting a tree for each subscriber or offsetting a given amount of CO2 for each Twitter follower.

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6. Encourage Green Lifestyle Changes

Whether your blog is about the environment or the stock market, you have the power of information. You can encourage users to take steps to decrease their environmental impact, to set their computer to run more efficiently, and many other tips.

7. Simplify Your Design

Each server request takes energy on both ends. The larger the transfer, the more energy consumed. Simple designs can be elegant and effective. You can also decrease your web site’s energy usage by posting fewer images with lower resolution, using fewer JavaScript widgets, and using less resource-intensive technology, like Flash. This will decrease load time and server requests.

Simplifying your site is not only eco-friendly, but user friendly as well. Some of the most popular blogs have very simple and user-friendly designs.

8. Speed Up Your Site

Search engines value speed. But slow sites also take up more energy. Not only does every server request consume energy, the more time people spend waiting for your site to load, the more energy is consumed.

If you run a blog, there are a ton of ways you can speed up your site. From the correct image formats to compression to caching.

9. Use Printer-Friendly Versions of Content

With the advent of smart phones and social networking, printing is becoming less necessary, but your visitors may occasionally need to print your posts out. Most content management systems and blog software offer plugins that will create a printer friendly version of your content, which saves on ink and paper in the long run.

This usually means erroneous graphics are removed and content is converted to text-only. Colors are removed (to use less ink), text is converted to serif fonts, links are underlined, font size is shrunk and navigation items are removed. Some sites also remove their advertising (or put in specific advertising like Mapquest.com does) and remove all JavaScript and other invisible coding.  Also have a purpose built mobile site which mobile users can use – again strips out all the graphics and reduces server strain!

10. Consider Your Colors

Computer monitors use energy to display colors. The older CRT monitors used more energy to display lighter colors like white (which explains the dark design of the Google alternative Blackle), but newer LCD monitors use more energy to display dark colors like black.

Because of the widespread use of LCDs, the darker the color of your web site, the more energy it will ultimately use. Designing your site with a lot of white space may be helpful. Although each page load may only save a small amount of energy, over the long-term, it adds up.

Conclusion

Whatever combination you choose, visitors will appreciate your environmental efforts. None of these efforts will change the world alone, but every small step matters. It is estimated the IT industry generates about 2% of the world’s CO2 emissions, equivalent to the entire airline industry If we all change our habits slightly, the impact will be significant.

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The agreement expected to be confirmed later this month, will see KNM take ownership of the EnergyPark site, which is consented for the UK’s first 80MWe biomass from waste to power station.

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KNM had earlier signed a deal worth £450 million with the developers, Green Energy Parks’ (GEP) subsidiary, Peterborough Renewable Energy Ltd in 2010 for the engineering, procurement and construction of the waste to power station.

KNM and GEP will now move forward together under an SPV (special purpose vehicle), Energy Park Investment Ltd which will be jointly owned to realise this ground-breaking project, which was granted consent by Ed Miliband  (then secretary of state for energy) in November 2009.

Once operational, the plant will draw upon a mix of best available technologies to achieve maximum diversion of waste from landfill and create renewable energy and recycled products at the same time.

Working closely with the technical team at GEP, the deal will pave the way for KNM to begin construction on the site in the near future.

Commenting on the proposed investment, Managing Director of Green Energy Parks, Chris Williams said: “In KNM Group Berhad we have found a partner who shares our ethos, drive and ambition to deliver a landfill free future.

“Together, we look forward to breaking ground and getting the construction phase under way.”

Announcing the deal, KNM Group Berhad Executive Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Ir. Lee Swee Eng added: “This is a ground-breaking project which will mark an important development in the way that waste is dealt with in the UK and we are incredibly excited at the prospect of having a partnership with Green Energy Parks, which forms a significant part of our drive into the renewable and clean energy sector.”

As well as a recycling centre, a waste-to-energy plant is planned for the site, in which biomass will be burned to boil rainwater, which will in turn be used to power turbines.

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The written judgement issued by Lord Justice Moses indicates that the December 12 referral date, proposed during Government’s consultation, could not be applied retrospectively. Lord Justice Moses did not accept that the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change was “free to introduce new and, if necessary, reduced rates as he determines necessary.”

Instead, Lord Justice Moses ruled that: “An owner of an installation is entitled to payment at a rate fixed by reference to and from the year in which the installation became eligible… The proposed modification has retroactive effect. If it comes into force on April 1, 2012 it takes away that pre-existing right to 25 years of payments at 43.3p/kWh and substitutes for it a right to that sum only for a few months and thereafter at the lower rate proposed of 21p/kWh.”

Interestingly, Lord Justice Moses ruled on a different basis to Mr Justice Mitting, who presided over the initial High Court hearing. Clare King, a renewable energy lawyer at Osborne Clarke, explained:

“In the High Court, Mr Justice Mitting submitted that in setting a reference date of December 12 2011, the Secretary of State was not furthering the purpose of the statute, which is to encourage small-scale low carbon generation of electricity. In the Court of Appeal, Lord Justice Moses submitted that the correct question was not whether the intention was to further the statutory purpose, but whether the Secretary of State had the power to use the statute in this way, i.e. to make retrospective changes to the FiT scheme. In his learned opinion, the Secretary of State did not have this power.”

King added: “Furthermore, on the issue of retrospective effect of the Secretary of State’s proposals, Mr Justice Mitting looked at whether the proposed modifications would have an adverse effect on the solar industry. In Mr Justice Mitting’s view, they would and so he ruled accordingly. In the Court of Appeal, Lord Justice Moses again took a step back from the question raised by Mr Justice Mitting and stated that the correct question should in fact have been whether or not Parliament had actually conferred on the Secretary of State the power to make a modification with retrospective effect. Lord Justice Moses submitted that it had not, and so the actions of the Secretary of State in making a retrospective modification would be invalid.”

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A damming verdict on the way which the current (if severely under threat through external pressure) Energy Secretary Chris Huhne  has conducted what is being described as an illegal, vindictive approach to the solar industry in the U.K. (this accusation will rumble on due to the appeal)  In fact, in this ruling, we learned that our Energy Secretary has exceeded his own powers in this farce.

“DECC” (or the taxpayer) was also ordered to pay the full costs of around £125,000 for the appeal hearing. In a Twitter message immediately after the ruling was handed down, Energy Minister Greg Barker, wrote: “Win, lose or draw today, important we move forward together, drive down costs + step up deployment.” He later messaged: “Real stabilty will come from my FIT reforms, announcing Feb, not Courts, + def not 43p”.

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DECC’s next legal step – The Supreme Court

DECC has now looked to apply for leave to appeal the case at the Supreme Court. SPP sources indicate that the Court of Appeal will most likely refuse DECC permission to appeal to the Supreme Court. However, DECC can seek permission to appeal directly from the Supreme Court itself.  Speaking with the Supreme Court yesterday, SPP learnt that if DECC’s case is taken on, it will most likely take several months to reach the courtrooms.

A spokesperson for the Supreme Court explained: “We will first have to decide whether the case fits the Supreme Court’s criteria – a process which can take several weeks. If the case is deemed appropriate to be heard, it can then take several months to reach the courtrooms due to the availability of the barristers coupled with the availability of the court.”

So, despite four judges, three of whom sat in the Court of Appeal calling the Government actions illegal AND being refused the right to appeal, the same Government is to launch an appeal, using taxpayers money (i.e. YOU can pay for them to try to prevent YOU from earning so much from using less energy and contributing to the National Grid!)

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This will mean that any Supreme Court hearing will most likely occur after March 3 – the date at which proposals laid before parliament, which reduce the feed-in tariff, will come into effect. As a consequence there is unlikely to be any clarity over feed-in tariff rates for systems installed between December 12 and March 3 before the lower FiT rates are implemented.

The implications of all this for installers is that they are still not able to tell customers whether or not they will receive the higher FiT rates (i.e. 43.3p/kWh) until the Supreme Court make a decision. As the Supreme Court is unlikely to make a decision before March 3, installers will never be able to guarantee prospective customers the higher FiT rate.

Many in the solar industry believe that DECC is deliberately appealing the decision at the Supreme Court to prolong uncertainty over feed-in tariff rates. By delaying the legal process, DECC hopes to limit another potential ‘goldrush’, should the feed-in tariff rates return to the previous, higher level.

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The CBI today responded to the decision by the Court of Appeal to uphold an earlier ruling that the Government’s change in policy on Feed-In Tariff (FIT) payments was ‘legally flawed’.

John Cridland, CBI Director-General, said the decision to appeal further was wrong and added: “The judgement should be used to draw a line under this saga, which saw the Government scoring a spectacular own goal and confidence in the renewables sector undermined.

“We must bring certainty back to this high growth sector. Looking to the future, the Government should guarantee the rate applicants will receive earlier in the process, for all the technologies covered by the feed-in-tariff, to give buyers the confidence to proceed.”

How solar panels can pay

Solar panels can save the typical home £90-£180/year in electricity, according to the Energy Saving Trust. However, the real draw is the Government guarantees that for 25 years you’ll get a ‘feed-in tariff’ which means you’re paid to generate energy, even if you use it yourself.

Over 25 years, these gains are extremely lucrative. The feed-in tariff scheme could pay back double your spend if you install before 3 March. For example, a £12,000 system would net £27,500 over 25 years.

Donna Hume of charity Friends of the Earth says: “Even with the changes, solar will still represent a good investment for many people. It allows households to continue to make money from the sun – and frees them from increasingly expensive fossil fuels and a stitched-up energy market dominated by the big six.

“However, a cloud of uncertainty still hangs over the financial viability of the entire scheme. If ministers want to protect jobs and enable more people to switch to clean power, they must come up with more money to finance the scheme.”

What will I get paid?

• Install before 3 March. Feed-in payments will be 43.3p per kWh.
• Install on 3 March or later. Payments will be 21p per kWh, slashing typical earnings and savings from £1,190 to £640 a year.

Can people sign up and install before the deadline?

It is unlikely that people will be able to sign up and install before 3 March, as ordering and fitting panels usually takes two months.

Those who have already ordered panels that are still being fitted could benefit. However, not only must panels be fitted by 3 March, but the energy supplier must also have received a ‘Microgeneration Certification Scheme’ certificate by then, which only valid once the system is working. These homeowners should urgently talk over their options with their installer.

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The work will be to help with the construction of a waste incinerator at Saddlebow in the Norfolk town.

Business development manager at Bam Nuttall David Brothers said there could be contracts available for other companies as well.

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“We’re also keen to speak with firms from across Norfolk and the eastern region about a range of subcontracting opportunities,” he stated.

Environment secretary Caroline Spelman recently announced the approval of £91 million in private finance for the scheme, despite a local poll showing the public had concerns about the project.

Cory Wheelabrator Consortium awarded Bam Nuttall with the contract and it is thought the scheme could create over 1,000 jobs overall.

Bam Nuttall is also currently working on a bus route between Luton and Dunstable as part of a £56 million deal with the local council.