End the 'absolute scandal' of new houses without solar collectors, the government urged | Science, climate & tech news

The government is asked to end the “absolute scandal” of new houses without solar collectors.

This would reduce both household calculations and greenhouse gases that cause climate change, the Local Government Association (LGA) said in a new report.

Only four out of ten new houses in England have solar energy, according to separate numbers of the industry body solar energy UK.

Although this is a significant triple increase compared to the one year, the LGA said that it would benefit the coming years that it would benefit the mandatory and the climate and that people save £ 440 a year.

The United Kingdom remains behind its neighbors in the European Union, which last year passed new laws in which all new residential buildings from 2030 are equipped with solar panels.

Greenpeace UK called it an “absolute scandal that houses are now being built on the roof without solar modules”.

His activist Lily Rose Ellis said: “In view of the rising electricity costs, our desperate needs to reduce the planetary heating emissions, and the relatively low costs for installation for house builders, solar collectors on all new builds should be mandatory.”

Last year Labor promised a “roof revolution” in which millions of more houses were equipped with solar collectors.

However, they were accused of having swaned over suggestions to make them mandatory, as they also recorded the house building industry in order to achieve their destination for the construction of 1.5 million houses during this parliament.

The LGA wants the government to provide you with long -term funds in the upcoming expenditure check so that you can help the country to meet NET zero.

A spokesman for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said that they are planning to “install solar collectors in new houses in its long-delayed new regulations, the future Homes standard, later this year.

The Heimbauer Federation said: “In order to meet the increasingly difficult carbon reductions from the government, we will see the overwhelming majority of the new houses solar, although it is not appropriate in every situation.”

Pylon series

The advance of solar energy is part of the wider government plans to ensure all the UK Electricity comes from green sources by 2030.

The electricity requirement also grows when the country changes to electric cars and heating and builds more data centers.

All of this requires as well as more wind and solar parks as well as 1,000 kilometers of new cables To carry the electricity from where it is generated – often a wind farm in the North Sea – where it is used in distant urban areas.

In parts of the country like East Anglia, A Row is cooked Underground about the question of whether these cables are covered on pylons or to protect the landscape.

A high new report by the Institution of Engineering and Technology has now initiated the debate in which the search for underground cables is an average of 4.5 -times more expensive than overhead lines.

Liam Hardy, research manager at Thinktank Green Alliance, said: “These costs have to go somewhere. You go to all our electricity invoices. And of course it is the poorest in society for which these invoices make up for a larger percentage of your income.

He added: “What you want to see is a price -performance ratio if we build this clean infrastructure that we need.”

The government has promised municipalities that were disturbed by the new infrastructure that should use some of the advantages, including Give households near new pylons £ 2,500 From your energy bills over 10 years.