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Put solar panels on all new homes to cut bills and carbon, says UK Local Government Association (LGA) (www.renewableenergymagazine.com)

submitted 1 day ago by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to c/uk_politics@feddit.uk

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[–] JohnSmith@feddit.uk 9 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

And while they are at it, put a battery in too.

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 4 points 18 hours ago

That would be a game changer

[–] lopar49@lemm.ee 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

They will never do this though

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

To be fair, a bunch of local authorities in London already have this mandate.

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 5 points 22 hours ago

Same in my area up north, and has been for quite a while.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 0 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

New homes aren't even being built facing the right way to make good use of them...

[–] PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

That doesn’t actually matter (unless the only roof area faces directly north). Panels in an east-west facing pair of slopes generate slightly more power over the Day than panels on one half of that roof facing directly south. More panels, obviously, but panels are pretty cheap at this point

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

See I'm thinking we should build them lob-sided with a much larger south facing edge.

[–] PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

That’s very much what I’m doing with my small house, but it’s not worth changing the orientation of a whole suburb or whatever, slinging panels on both sides of the roof is plenty good enough

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 points 2 hours ago

I'd have slapped some up myself, but then I swapped to Agile Octopus, cut my electricity bill basically in half, and it pushed any break even point waaaay into the future.