Solar panels on all new homes as part of Labour’s net-zero push
https://www.thetimes.com/article/cffe9284-9c26-4ca5-9a48-80fec2d95d6b?shareToken=5615f12d8042629d71fbe2fe7c09a1e3
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Solar panels on all new homes as part of Labour’s net-zero push
https://www.thetimes.com/article/cffe9284-9c26-4ca5-9a48-80fec2d95d6b?shareToken=5615f12d8042629d71fbe2fe7c09a1e3
Posted by Half_A_
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Did you see that horse on the way up the drive ? Just bolt that gate behind you
Isn’t there a shortage of solar panels?
Won’t this run the risk of slowing down housing construction? – I can’t say I’m a fan of making construction of housing even more burdensome – shouldn’t be letting perfect be the enemy of the good.
Not sure we need to add more hoops to jump through to build new homes.
Awesome!
So that means a load of new capacitor/battery facilities for the grid that we can energize during sunny days and draw from when needed?
Great idea. As long as no one starts to start interfering with the weather in order to block the sun…………
We are governed by fucking morons.
Don’t just make it new homes, make sure its part of building things like warehouses and supermarkets too.
Good. Probably should include some battery capacity for each house to help manage the grid
This seems like a good idea and I fully support this. Idk why people are going out of their way to find negatives about it
This seems eminently reasonable. Every square meter of roof is being bombarded with solar energy for hours every day. Why let that energy go to waste?
Originally, this and heat pumps were supposed to be standard, and the conservatives killed it.
So yeah, thanks guys.
Long overdue – we needed governments pushing for this *years* ago so companies would invest in improving the technology sooner, instead we’ve waited while other countries did it.
But there also needs to be a push to get them onto more existing buildings, especially as part of upgrades to install heat pumps since it makes so much sense to have solar on a building that’s gone all-electric.
It would cuts bills for homes, and builds out a *massive* solar network without the problems of having to get planning permission for vast tracts of land that can be used for something else. Even better if we can get it all connected up and add storage capacity to the grid, but even if we don’t, every KWh reduced on a household bill is one less that our power stations need to generate.
I been hearing a lot recently about how electricity prices in UK are so high because of our reliance on gas.
Is there a tipping point where enough solar is generated that it would mean everyone’s bills go down, even those without the panels?
Fantastic idea. Let’s hope the government swallow the cost of this
Seems like a jolly sensible idea.
I’m sure we’ll find a way to fuck it up some how.
The UK has the 6th lowest Sunlight Hours (per year) 1,400 in the world!
Wouldn’t it be better to put electric windmills on the chimneys instead
I’m sure the cost of installing into new homes would be minimal. The panels can be had for less than £60 each now, most of the cost seems to be in getting up to the roof to retrofit them.
They should be installed with batteries too
Surprised to see they only cost around £10k. Given average house price in UK is £260k, this is sensible.
Holy mother of Christ. Where did they pull this from? I’ve never seen such a unique concept. Truly out of this world.
That’s us lads! Let’s extend Heathrow and burn bunker oil to heat our homes. This will offset the vast majority of damage.
This is where the solar panels should be going. Whack them on supermarkets, hospitals, any large buildings. Incorporate them into all future builds when viable
Solar installations for 2024 are going to be crazy when the figures come out. Russian invasion has meant a shit load of middle class families installing solar. It’s running at 40% of the grid last few days.
I’ve always wondered why it hasn’t become mandatory for all new buildings, whether it’s housing or commerical, to have solar panels and batteries as part of the build.
I’m generally against solutions that make our cities and towns ugly. There are other ways to solve our energy crisis than don’t downgrade our architecture
We had the code for sustainable homes about 20 years ago that would have got us there already but twas binned. Because of reasons.
The production of the solar panels’ emissions will be much more than the emissions they save, not to mention the ridiculous installation price that is going to artificially inflate the value of those houses. Build wind farms. We are an island.
Cover carparks in them. It would be shade for cars and also generate some electricity.
Finally somewhat sensible policy amidst the pile of dung
would be cool but the far right would probably believe it caused cancer or something
It’s hilarious how British papers have turned “net zero” into some kind of swear word. Meanwhile, every other country is just getting on with it, recognising it as their responsibility. The UK seems to be stuck in the mud, acting like cutting emissions is optional while the rest of the world understands it’s just part of growing up and facing the reality of climate change.
Moved in a new build April, my only gripe is there’s no battery storage.
Only a 1.2kw system but recent mornings show ~700 watts/h being sent back to the grid.
I am not a big fan of policies like this for a few main reasons.
Having solar on individual houses is super inefficient. If we set up large centralized solar farms its typically 30-50% cheaper to install, works with our current grid design and is much cheaper to fix and maintain. You also do not get the load modulation with individual solar panels, which you get with centralized systems.
Its also a big ugly to be honest.
I would start by forcing new homes to have efficient insulation and a heat pump first.
If we want to do this policy it would be much better to simply have a small fee on house construction similar to the 3.3-4k cost of solar, which goes straight to GB Energy for the construction of large, efficient, solar farms.