UK Politics

People seem to be missing something important about this suggestion:

In a market system where solar pv is an option, per-residence efficiency and effectiveness matters a lot and the objections raised here makes sense. But a mandate that all new builds come with solar pv changes that logic fundamentally.

You are now in the domain of grid-scale distributed energy production, grid resilience, and production scaling that will force panel prices much, much further down. This is an infrastructure change and should be considered in those terms.

I would personally have started with residential energy storage for the same reason, but honestly both should happen anyway.

This chap thinks he's in bloody Australia 🤣

Solar panels will obviously not work well in all houses, but where they do there should be sufficient incentives to add them. Large scale use of dedicated house batteries or EVs to time-shift energy draw from the grid would also make the whole system much more efficient.

Build a fucking solar farm! It's more efficient!

This bill might have been well-meaning, but it's honestly not realistic to put solar panels on every home. Some homes just aren't well sited to get full benefit from solar panels, especially when you're far from the equator. I would love to have solar panels on my house, and my government has reimbursement programs available for solar panel installs so I went seeking quotes. Unfortunately I was told point blank by multiple installers that the panels wouldn't offset their own cost in my situation. Too much tree shade, not enough roof slope facing the equator. Disappointing, but I'd rather see those panels get installed on homes that can make the most of them.