I’m writing this on a grey last Friday in July morning, but I have some defiantly sunny news to impart. The Body Shop has just completed, in 9 weeks, Britain’s largest self-funded (paid for by the company itself) rooftop solar energy system at its head office at Littlehampton in Sussex. 3,840 solar panels covering an… Continue reading
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WW2 bomber runway evolves into solar power plant
In the blink of an eye (well, compared to the time most building projects take) a business park in Buckinghamshire, UK, has switched on the sun. An array of 1500 solar panels took just two months to install and was switched on this month (June, 2011) to meet 9% of the energy needs of the… Continue reading →