York firm opens region’s first energy centre

YORKSHIRE-based renewable energy specialist Solarwall is to open the region’s first energy centre.

The resource centre, which is based in Clifton in York, has been created to educate and promote the economic and environmental benefits of renewable technologies to homeowners, businesses and local authorities.

Its launch taps into the current rapid expansion of the renewable energy market, fuelled further by the introduction of Feed In Tariffs (FIT) in April 2010 and the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) coming in April 2011.

Home owners can use the centre as a one-stop-shop for home energy systems, energy saving lighting, products such as ground and air source heat pumps, power savers and solar thermal systems.

Advisory and technical staff will be available on site, and a customer advice telephone line will also operate.

The centre also features a carbon-free meeting room, which will be used to host seminars and workshops and will also be available for hire by local businesses.

Grant Henderson, head of renewables at York-based Solarwall, said it was a market-driven initiative that enabled Solarwall to enhance the range of services available to its customers.

“Solarwall has been in business over 30 years and we have established a very strong base in Yorkshire,” he said.

“We have big plans for the energy centre and as well as encouraging people to come and see us, we will also be taking it out on the road through our mobile displays, visiting schools and community groups, and also hosting seminars at the centre for architects, builders and business groups.”