UK could require solar panels on most new homes by 2027

[Liranan]

The cynical side of me just sees this as another opportunity to up the price of a house or rental property. Basically, it will be price gouged - £4000 additional cost to the builder? That will be £15000 added to the purchase price of the house.

Speak from experience with my own older house. It was built in 1994, has large south facing roof and a staggering £11K to 19K install cost for solar depending on whether or not I want batteries. I'd save £240 a year off my electricity bill as the array would never fully displace grid supply with the UK's climate (It rains A LOT here).

Hardly an incentive with a 45 year break even point on outlay at £11K. This is why uptake is so low here.

It is intentional, they want to monopolise home ownership and concentrate all power within the hands of a few landlords. They don't care about the environment, they want the 'useless eaters' gone.

 

[BuckarooBonzaii]

We are so programmed into words like climate, carbon, ozone, solar and a few others, that anything we read or hear must be true because it comes from Science experts, which I believe some things are true. But how much of the narratives are being directed? Science needs funding and grants to exist and the biggest funding comes from Government and big business. So Science is intertwined politically and at some point becomes subjective when they are told to or else they'll loose funding.

 

[Eldrach]

Solar power is good - but the «home batteries» are currently not «as good» as they need to be. With sufficient battery capacity - the grid overload wouldn’t be much of an issue as most of the power would be stored locally for use during evening / nights