The Renewable Energy Association is the main trade association for the (overall) renewables industry in the UK

Renewable energy in the United Kingdom

From the mid 1990s renewable energy began to contribute to the electricity generated in the United Kingdom, adding to a small hydroelectricity generating capacity...

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History

It was formed in 2001 as the Renewable Power Association, changing to its current name in October 2005. The organisation used to be based on Waterloo Place.

Structure

It is the largest, by membership, renewable energy trade association in the UK. The HQ is situated opposite Waterloo train station on the A301, also near London Waterloo East railway station.

It is split into industry groups:

• Transport fuels
• Renewable power
• On-site renewables
• Heating and cooling, and CHP
• Biomass
  Biomass
  Biomass, as a renewable energy source, is biological material from living, or recently living organisms. As an energy source, biomass can either be used directly, or converted into other energy products such as biofuel....
  
  
• Bioenergy
  Bioenergy
  Bioenergy is renewable energy made available from materials derived from biological sources. Biomass is any organic material which has stored sunlight in the form of chemical energy. As a fuel it may include wood, wood waste, straw, manure, sugarcane, and many other byproducts from a variety of...
  
  
• Ocean energy
• Solar photovoltaics

Function

It represents the industry at a national level, and provides consumer protection/assurance schemes, such as REAL Assurance. The domestic energy generation market is rapidly expanding, and so will inevitably attract a few suppliers who take consumers for a ride, and misrepresent their products to their customers.

In June each year, since 2006, it has held the British Renewable Energy Awards.

See also

• Department of Energy and Climate Change
  Department of Energy and Climate Change
  The Department of Energy and Climate Change is a British government department created on 3 October 2008 by Prime Minister Gordon Brown to take over some of the functions of the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform and Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs...
  
  
• The Carbon Trust
  The Carbon Trust
  The Carbon Trust is a not for dividend company limited by guarantee created by the UK government to help businesses and public organisations to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, through improved energy efficiency and developing commercial low carbon technology...
  
  
• Renewable Energy Foundation
  Renewable Energy Foundation
  The Renewable Energy Foundation , founded in 2004 by UK TV personality Noel Edmonds, is a United Kingdom-based, registered charity with a stated aim of promoting the development of sustainable energy technologies....
  
  
• Renewable UK

News items

News items in which the REA has been referenced include:

• Solar panels in March 2011
• UK green economy in June 2010
• Kent windfarm in November 2009
• Low Carbon Buildings Programme in March 2009
• Carbon economy in March 2009
• Solar panel grants in May 2008
• Wind farms in December 2007
• Solar panel grants in March 2007
• Renewable generation in July 2006
• UK energy policy in April 2006
• Microgeneration in March 2006
• Solar photovoltaics in March 2005