• Off-grid farmers are the future

    IN THE future, more and more farmers will go completely "off grid", disconnecting from their power supplier and becoming self sufficient.

  • Sunshine and ice cream

    FAMILY-RUN ice-cream makers Mackie's are determined to become one of the greenest companies in Britain, and with the installation of solar panels adding to their existing wind turbines, it seems they are well on their way.

  • Solar PV – FITs of indecision

    FOLLOWING THE slashing of the tariff subsidies for photovoltaic (PV) generation, last month's massive Ecobuild exhibition and conference in London provided powerful evidence – if it was needed – that reports of the death of the UK solar PV industry are most definitely premature.

  • The sun and the pain...

    HAS THE sun now set on the UK's solar PV industry or not?

  • Solar subsidy slashed

    FARMERS PLANNING a solar power installation on their shed roof need to either hurry up – or think again.

  • Solar panel competition winners

    THE DONALD family of Bridge of Earn, Perthshire, are the lucky winners of The Scottish Farmer and BritishEco Scotland competition for a £10,000 Solar PV System.

  • Should your shed go solar?

    EVEN IN Scotland, where sunshine is not in abundant supply, any farm with a south facing shed roof can still benefit from having solar panels installed.

  • Solar success at Greenmount

    ULSTER’S COLLEGE of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise has reported “very encouraging” results from its year-long trial of on-farm solar power.

  • Is your farm FIT for solar power?

    THE ADVENT of the Government’s new Feed-in-Tariffs, or FITs, is set to transform farming across Scotland, with solar power rapidly becoming one of the soundest investments for the generation of renewable electricity.