Every new home to have solar panels and heat pumps from 2027

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1. Completely common sense easy win.

   Good policy that the tories completly rolled back on.

2. DNOs should upgrade the grid first.

   Lots of installations are being limited because the grid can’t cope with the export.

3. This has been pretty much the norm under london plan for a number of years, good to have this rolled out to the rest of the country

4. This will make construction more expensive, shouldn’t be implemented 

5. Hopefully more solar panels than the ones in the article image, but good news overall!

6. let’s hope they come with batteries as part of the package. Though it is a good thing. Onward and upward.

7. The panels done even work well, let alone the builder properly plan it, you gotta try to do some complicated shit to add them with your energy provider that’s impossible and even then you save 0.

   All this does is make your new home more expensive.

8. Be aware the service charge on these fuckers is wild. Mines gone for 40p a day to £1.50 before you’ve even used heat. Can’t change either

9. Banning the sale of all new non-electric cookers would also be a great idea.

10. Should have been done like 20 years ago, but better late than never.

11. Well I own a house now, so anything to make new builds more expensive!! :))

12. Great, so happy that’s coming in 9 years after I bought a new build property, and after the stories removed the requirement years before I bought it too.

    Watch reform or stories roll it back next time though.

13. Now let’s just get four more nuclear plants up and running and ban the use of anything less than 450w pannels and we might just hit that target realistically.

14. The only thing I question about this is that you only get decent power from a solar array if it’s unobstructed and south-facing – input drops off a cliff of you don’t fulfill both those criteria. Are they going to mandate orienting new estates north-south and a ban on tall trees?

15. It will all be added to the overall price, so not a win. I would agree will the solar panels, but the heat pump would be ditched once it fails or we have a bad winter

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