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oddson2003

Joined: 19 Oct 2005
Posts: 6

Posted: Mon Jun 04, 07 2:32 pm Post subject: Solar power, (British manufacturers) ?
Just wondering if you can help me on this one, are there any British firms designing and manufacturing solar panels, the only companies I've come across so sell foreign equipment.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Mon Jun 04, 07 2:34 pm Post subject:
Thermomax? (solar thermal)

MarkS

Joined: 01 Aug 2006
Posts: 2626

Posted: Mon Jun 04, 07 2:45 pm Post subject:

tahir wrote:

Thermomax? (solar thermal)

I thought their panels (or at least evac tubes) were chinese ?

It doesnt make sense financially to meke the things here.

But does the OP mean PV or solar water ?

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Mon Jun 04, 07 2:48 pm Post subject:

MarkS wrote:

It doesnt make sense financially to meke the things here.

That's the way it is, very little made over here

dougal

Joined: 15 Jan 2005
Posts: 7184
Location: South Kent

Posted: Mon Jun 04, 07 3:37 pm Post subject:

MarkS wrote:

tahir wrote:

Thermomax? (solar thermal)

I thought their panels (or at least evac tubes) were chinese ?

Don't think so Mark.
https://www.thermomax-group.com/company.htm

Perhaps you are confusing Thermomax with Navitron (who do sell less sophisticated, but still heatpipe-based, evacuated tube collectors that are made in China)?

Really the UK isn't a manufacturing country any more. And some areas, like silicon wafers for solar pv, we have no presence in at all. There may be people encapsulating wafers into weatherproof enclosures here, but does that matter?

Rather than manufacturing, these days the country does "systems integration" - taking a bunch of bits that other disparate folk have made, and make them work together. Then we stick a union jack on the final system...

sean
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Posted: Mon Jun 04, 07 3:54 pm Post subject:
BTW, this has to be a new world record for lurking before posting.

tahir

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Posted: Mon Jun 04, 07 3:59 pm Post subject:

sean wrote:

BTW, this has to be a new world record for lurking before posting.

Just noticed that, excellent, glad to see you posting

oddson2003

Joined: 19 Oct 2005
Posts: 6

Posted: Tue Jun 05, 07 5:22 pm Post subject:
I hadn't realised it was my first post

sean
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Posted: Tue Jun 05, 07 10:17 pm Post subject:
Doesn't matter either way.

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