Every new home to have solar panels and heat pumps from 2027
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/environment/article/heat-pumps-solar-panels-new-homes-2027-tlww96fgm
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Every new home to have solar panels and heat pumps from 2027
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/environment/article/heat-pumps-solar-panels-new-homes-2027-tlww96fgm
Posted by Dependent-Loss-4080
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Completely common sense easy win.
Good policy that the tories completly rolled back on.
DNOs should upgrade the grid first.
Lots of installations are being limited because the grid can’t cope with the export.
This has been pretty much the norm under london plan for a number of years, good to have this rolled out to the rest of the country
This will make construction more expensive, shouldn’t be implemented
Hopefully more solar panels than the ones in the article image, but good news overall!
let’s hope they come with batteries as part of the package. Though it is a good thing. Onward and upward.
The panels done even work well, let alone the builder properly plan it, you gotta try to do some complicated shit to add them with your energy provider that’s impossible and even then you save 0.
All this does is make your new home more expensive.
Be aware the service charge on these fuckers is wild. Mines gone for 40p a day to £1.50 before you’ve even used heat. Can’t change either
Banning the sale of all new non-electric cookers would also be a great idea.
Should have been done like 20 years ago, but better late than never.
Well I own a house now, so anything to make new builds more expensive!! :))
Great, so happy that’s coming in 9 years after I bought a new build property, and after the stories removed the requirement years before I bought it too.
Watch reform or stories roll it back next time though.
Now let’s just get four more nuclear plants up and running and ban the use of anything less than 450w pannels and we might just hit that target realistically.
The only thing I question about this is that you only get decent power from a solar array if it’s unobstructed and south-facing – input drops off a cliff of you don’t fulfill both those criteria. Are they going to mandate orienting new estates north-south and a ban on tall trees?
It will all be added to the overall price, so not a win. I would agree will the solar panels, but the heat pump would be ditched once it fails or we have a bad winter
Does the government know about the regs that came into force in 2023? Or the future hone regulations? Most new builds already have solar panels on…
If they don’t, they’ll be using air source heat pumps.
It’s about time and makes sense. Surly this takes the pressure off the national grid and a bit of breathing space for updates.
Looking forward to the inevitable scandale of fly-by-night installers siphoning off any funding for this and tax payers will have to pay to sort in 20 years time.
New homes to become even more expensive and inaccessible to first-time buyers.
As long as the equipment is good enough and powerful enough to support the home, there’s a lot of new builds who are doing the bare legal minimum and still leaving people with large energy bills