Sure we’ve greens in government. No doubt they’ll spearhead an initiative to see solar panels on every home that can accommodate them and work out a brilliant way for the state and home owner to pay for this that doesn’t bankrupt either.
Greens: “more bike paths is our only goal”
They’ve been given an incredible opportunity to initiate a proper change and they are making a balls of it.
They’ll be lucky if they can return a single seat at the next election.
It is funny that all new builds come with 2 or 3 solar pannels and not whole roof covered (difference at builders level probably around 2k euros). I got two on my home and when I have ask builder why not 10 he said that gov told them two is enough for BER A2. What a joke. BTW if all newbuilds would be self-sufficient who would pay wages in the electric industry?
We still have a maximum allowed of 12 square metres of panels before you have to apply for planning. The limit should be removed and let people generate whatever they can. A friend in Germany (big house in fairness) recently got 99 square metres – no issues. 9 months of the year he’ll be self sufficient and selling to the grid.
What!! You get sunshine in Ireland /s
The quarter that face south, yes.
What’s the point of articles like this. “The government could fix the housing crisis” but we all know that’s not going to happen either.
How many Irish homes could we power with the power being sequestered by data centres? That’s a report I’m more interested in reading.
In order to power the grid from home scale solar installations the power grid would need to be updated to accommodate this. That money may be better spent on building grid scale solar installations instead.
Which quarter?
need to have a house first i guess.
In my house we are using 15kW electricity per day avg over the year, and oil central heating, and wood stove with a back boiler in winter. I don’t think solar panels would make any sort of a dent to our energy costs unless someone got an electric car
Anyone know if its effective to have garden based panels rather than roof top? My roof is totally unsuitable position wize but I have a large garden that could accommodate panels.
My rooftop solar currently provides 70-80% of my power requirements.
I know this sounds counter intuitive, but if you really want to lower the global carbon output, you should probably hold off buying solar RN. Panels are in high demand, and they are much more efficient in southern europe.
I know this sounds counterintuitive, but if you really want to lower the global carbon output, you should probably hold off buying solar RN. Panels are in high demand, and they are much more efficient in southern europe.
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Sure we’ve greens in government. No doubt they’ll spearhead an initiative to see solar panels on every home that can accommodate them and work out a brilliant way for the state and home owner to pay for this that doesn’t bankrupt either.
Greens: “more bike paths is our only goal”
They’ve been given an incredible opportunity to initiate a proper change and they are making a balls of it.
They’ll be lucky if they can return a single seat at the next election.
It is funny that all new builds come with 2 or 3 solar pannels and not whole roof covered (difference at builders level probably around 2k euros). I got two on my home and when I have ask builder why not 10 he said that gov told them two is enough for BER A2. What a joke. BTW if all newbuilds would be self-sufficient who would pay wages in the electric industry?
We still have a maximum allowed of 12 square metres of panels before you have to apply for planning. The limit should be removed and let people generate whatever they can. A friend in Germany (big house in fairness) recently got 99 square metres – no issues. 9 months of the year he’ll be self sufficient and selling to the grid.
What!! You get sunshine in Ireland /s
The quarter that face south, yes.
What’s the point of articles like this. “The government could fix the housing crisis” but we all know that’s not going to happen either.
How many Irish homes could we power with the power being sequestered by data centres? That’s a report I’m more interested in reading.
In order to power the grid from home scale solar installations the power grid would need to be updated to accommodate this. That money may be better spent on building grid scale solar installations instead.
Which quarter?
need to have a house first i guess.
In my house we are using 15kW electricity per day avg over the year, and oil central heating, and wood stove with a back boiler in winter. I don’t think solar panels would make any sort of a dent to our energy costs unless someone got an electric car
Anyone know if its effective to have garden based panels rather than roof top? My roof is totally unsuitable position wize but I have a large garden that could accommodate panels.
My rooftop solar currently provides 70-80% of my power requirements.
I know this sounds counter intuitive, but if you really want to lower the global carbon output, you should probably hold off buying solar RN. Panels are in high demand, and they are much more efficient in southern europe.
I know this sounds counterintuitive, but if you really want to lower the global carbon output, you should probably hold off buying solar RN. Panels are in high demand, and they are much more efficient in southern europe.