With energy prices rocketing again, now may be a good time to consider investing in solar panels to generate your own electricity. The energy price cap rose by 6.4 per cent in April, taking the average household bill to £1,849 per year for a typical home using electricity and natural gas. The average cost
After Europe’s biggest blackout in over 20 years, experts warn that while such incidents are rare, no grid is infallible Europe’s biggest blackout in over 20 years on the Iberian peninsula unleashed hours of chaos for people in Spain, Portugal and parts of France earlier this week. But in the aftermath it has raised a
In one hand, an oat latte. In the other, a phone with social feeds full of doom-scroll posts about the end of the world. Across Britain, a quiet transformation is happening. It’s not the stereotype of survivalist preppers hoarding beans in bunkers. It’s middle-class professionals - scientists, sustainability experts, teachers, doctors, policy analysts and management
The number of households installing solar panels surged last month, according to new data. More than 17,000 households installed solar panels in March, according to Coventry Building Society - a 41 per cent increase on the same month last year when around 12,200 were installed. In 2025 so far, solar panels have been installed on
My spirits always lift at this time of year when the sun comes out – but this spring I have an extra reason to enjoy the warmer weather. Last year, my wife Helen and I finally installed solar panels on our home, which means that sunny days boost our bank balance as well as
The UK government has today published its Solar Roadmap, a government-industry paper setting out practical measures to meet solar capacity targets. The roadmap states that meeting the upper end of the capacity ambition set in the Clean Power 2030 (CP30) Action Plan of 47GW solar installed would require just 0.4% of total UK land and
So this last couple of weeks has seen a spurt of applications regarding placing solar panels on fields in the area. There are pros and cons to this but in my opinion, there is an increasing need for green energy – yes climate change is real – and the more we can generate from wind
Some ideas are just too clever to die. Like Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) — the notion that your electric car can act as a home battery. Park it at home, plug it in, and when the sun goes down or prices spike, your car sells energy back to the grid. It’s green, it’s clever, and it feels
Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure The climate crisis is on track to destroy capitalism, a top insurer has warned, with the vast cost of extreme weather impacts leaving the financial sector unable to operate. The world is fast approaching
Is now a good time to install solar panels on my home as I want to reduce my energy bills and help the planet? With energy prices reaching an all-time high and the urgent need to cut our use of fossil fuels, there’s never been a better time to install solar panels.Solar power is one