Financing a green transition for hotels
A typical hotel which installs 80 solar panels will have energy savings from heating water of between 30 and 40 per cent, an Employers and...
Photovoltaics
State failing to follow own rules for big projects say conservationists
Conservationists censured the government on Wednesday over its failure to protect the environment or even ensure its own provisions in impact studies were adhered to...
Energy efficiency: the forgotten necessity
By Charalampos Theopemptou When politicians in Cyprus talk about energy policy they usually refer to gas and only gas. Focusing just on gas is by...
Church’s photovoltaics park fails the green litmus test
A solar power park in Solea has been presented as a green project to increase Cyprus’ production of energy from renewable sources, so why are...
Scheme launched to subsidise energy efficient work on homes
The energy ministry on Tuesday unveiled a subsidy scheme aimed at owners who want to upgrade their homes and make them more energy efficient. The...
Audit office issues damning report on PV park in Larnaca
The state failed to apply the principles of transparency and equal treatment in leasing state land for the installation of photovoltaics in the district of...
Home insulation and photovoltaics scheme to continue next year
The sponsorship plan for encouraging the use of renewable energy sources and energy saving in houses will continue in 2021, the energy ministry announced on...
Solar power: egalitarian, cheap and fair
For the first time in its history, Cyprus has the chance to be energy independent, and it’s not from gas By Constantinos Christofides Down through...
Cabinet approves incentive plan for photovoltaics and electric cars
The cabinet on Wednesday approved a plan to provide incentives for the installation of photovoltaic systems, charging stations and smart metres in homes for charging...
New project to push use of renewable energy in public buildings
A new project to support innovative and cost-effective energy rehabilitation in public buildings has received more than €2.8 million in funding, the University of Cyprus...
Energy ministry pushes for application deadline extension for RES park
By Philippe Orphanides The energy ministry’s intention of asking the cabinet to extend the application deadline for the second renewable energy park (RES) project has...
EAC and archbishopric sign deal
Cyprus’ electricity authority (EAC) clinched a deal with the archbishopric on Friday to develop photovoltaic parks. According to a statement, the parks will span 192.8...
Cyprus struggling to meet RES targets for transport
Officials said on Tuesday that by the year 2020 Cyprus may be able to achieve the target of 13 per cent of its energy being...
€500m needed for energy saving measures and RES
Some €500m in investments need to go towards saving energy and using renewable energy sources in Cyprus by 2019, while efforts to prepare a photovoltaic park in Akrotiri...
Photovoltaics to be installed in hundreds of schools
The Council of Ministers on Wednesday approved a joint proposal by the ministries of energy and education for the installation of photovoltaic systems in schools....
Wind power is a shameful waste
By Clive Turner Some months ago, I wrote a piece for the Sunday Mail about the inordinate waste of public resources in spending Cyprus’ entire alternative energy budget on...
Suspect schemes for wind farms
Insufficient reasoning, missing documents and seemingly arbitrary government decisions are just some of the findings in an Audit Service report released this week on government...
Accolade for UCY team in photovoltaics field
A team from the FOSS Research Centre of Sustainable Energy of the University of Cyprus (UCY) has won the top prize at the biggest conference...
Net metering applications can now be made
By Staff Reporter THE Cyprus Energy Regulatory Authority (CERA) has started accepting applications for the installation of low-capacity domestic photovoltaic systems, known as net metering,...
Fighting over renewable pie
By Elias Hazou DESPITE government assurances yesterday that there is no intention after all of scaling back on net metering systems, a turf war has...