Your guide to how much solar panels cost in 2025
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
‘Blackouts can happen anywhere’: how power systems worldwide can collapse
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
Why Well-Off Brits Who Think Collapse Is Coming Still Stay Silent
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
Solar panel installations surged 41% last month as households look to cut bills
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
How I became solar panels convert – and even made a profit on my electricity bill, by SIR STEVE WEBB
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
UK Solar Roadmap charts course to nine million homes powered by solar
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)
OPINION: Solar farms are an electrifying topic
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
Phase Shift: V2G Is A Furphy
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,
Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer
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