Government set to boost solar uptake: comment

“Finally some good news for new build owners! Housebuilders have spent years pushing back against standards to stop homes wasting so much energy and at a time of another gas price crisis this takes on a whole new perspective. Had homes been built more efficiently in the past decade, the UK would not be so dependent on foreign gas imports and not as vulnerable to gas price spikes. The delay in standards is an energy security and therefore a national security issue.

“Now families will be able to move into a new build knowing it'll be cheaper to run. The public generally can’t understand why putting solar on roofs of new houses hasn’t been made standard before. In the US, at the time of the last gas crisis they called heat pumps ‘freedom pumps’ as they helped homes to shift away from gas dependence, which in the UK for homes with a gas boiler will increasingly come from abroad as UK gas output inevitably declines."