Winter Solstice: Batteries to power UK homes as energy demand increases on shortest day
Wednesday (21 December) marks the shortest day of the year in the UK and many other nations, meaning that electricity demand is likely to increase as people turn lights on earlier. To help maintain energy security, battery storage systems
Public support for solar reaches record high for the second year
The latest polling from the Public Attitudes Tracker showed that 88% of people support the use a renewable energy in the UK, including solar, beating last year’s previous high of 84%, whilst only 2% of the public oppose it. Conducted
UK Government confirms additional support schemes amidst energy crisis
The UK Government has today (19 December) confirmed details of new schemes to provide additional support to households across Britain and Northern Ireland amidst the rising costs of energy bills. These include: support for households in Northern Ireland; the
Nineteen years of ‘free power’ from solar PV, says ECIU, as storage costs drive price plunge
Payback periods as low as six years on new rooftop solar means up to 19 years of free power now for property owners who install panels, academics at the Energy & Climate Intelligence Unit have calculated. With UK rooftop installations now running
Insulating homes would help lower UK energy bills, ministers told
UK Green Building Council has laid out a three-point plan for the government to consider Insulating Britain’s draughty houses, overhauling the planning system, and preventing housebuilders from selling sub-standard homes would all cut people’s energy bills and help set
How solar panels with battery storage can help combat soaring energy bills
Are you thinking about solar battery storage? Here is why you should even in winter, says John Gilham, Group Technical Director at Green Building RenewablesThe sun may seem like a distant memory but it’s never too late in the year
Oil firms have internally dismissed swift climate action, House panel says
Documents show the fossil fuel industry ‘has no real plans to clean up its act’ and took steps to continue business as usual Some of the world’s largest oil and gas companies have internally dismissed the need to swiftly
Solar is gateway to 19 years of free electricity, says ECIU
With the payback time of rooftop solar panels now just six years, households could benefit from 19 years of “essentially free” electricity during the remainder of their lifespan, according to the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU). Solar farms are
One of climate change’s great mysteries is finally being solvedvOne of climate change’s great mysteries is finally being solved
For over a decade, the largest scientific uncertainty about how the planet will respond to warming temperatures hasn’t come from how much carbon dioxide will be soaked up by the ocean or absorbed by the trees. It’s come, instead, from