Millions of homeowners could be set to receive cheap loans and grants for solar panels

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/clean-energy-net-zero-solar-starmer-miliband-b2670884.html

by Ritualixx

9 comments

  2. “At the moment heat pumps cost more than boilers but can be as expensive to run because of the cost of electricity,” they said”.

    This is really the bigger issue. Electricity is 4X~ the price of natural gas so you have to have a very well planned/installed heat pump for it to make any financial sense to retrofit one. Fitting solar panels and batteries will reduce this cost for some home owners, but it won’t fundamentally change the fact that the marginal pricing structure for electricity is flawed.

    We need to fix the pricing issues on a national level rather than trying to mitigate them at an individual homeowner level IMO. Make electricity cheap and people will be falling over themselves to install AHSP and A2A systems.

  3. This won’t be for everyone, but I’ve been holding off from getting solar and battery storage in the hope all you lovely taxpayers will buy it for me, like youve subsidised my Tesla.

  4. The richest (homeowners) being subsidised by the poorest (renters) as usual.

  5. “Cheap loans” you mean loans with an interest rate that means people will actually be able to pay them back without starving?

  6. Gas is the best form of heating for a country like England. Panels are only useful during the summer and no use during cloud covered winter. That’s not considering the new ice age coming there due to global warming,

  7. ‘Houseowners’ – to anyone in a flat this is basically irrelevant

  8. I’m all for innciatives that allow people to improve the standards of housing. I just hope it isn’t a convaluted and red tapped as much as the innciative that was supposed to allow landlords to improve tenant’s housing. I applied for a grant for my tenant, on her behalf, got told to wait for a phone call back and six months later still nothing. No confirmation either way of being approved or being denied the grant. And the unfortunate reality is I don’t have £10,000 laying around to install solar panels and improve insulation myself. All I’m saying it’s all well and good announcing such a scheme but they need to make it accessible and not filled with a ton of red tape.

  9. *laughs in flat block*

    No doubt the management will utterly gouge the shit out of us, with some totally arbitrary price and no consultation whatsoever

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