cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/27570552
The U.K. government on Tuesday introduced new rules requiring developers to install heat pumps and solar panels in all new homes across England, in policymakers’ latest response to the economic fallout of the Iran conflict.
U.K. ministers say the Iran war and the largest supply disruption in the history of the oil market reinforces the need to leverage clean power as an energy security tool.
The Future Homes Standard — a set of new-build regulations for England from 2028 — will establish requirements to ensure homes are built with on-site renewable electricity generation, the majority of which is expected to be provided by solar power.
The rules will also see homes built with low-carbon heating, such as heat pumps and heat networks.
The government added that plug-in solar panels, which homeowners can install on balconies, would be available within shops over the coming months.
Shame we didn’t do this a decade ago, when Cameron decided we didn’t need any of that green crap…
Lol Germany is right now doing the opposite. You can finally buy an oil hesring for your brand new house. The subsidies for solar panels will be cut. WE are now thinking about fracking 🤡
TBH I wouldn’t consider Germany being smart when it comes to the energy
It was the leading country in terms of solar at home and probably still is. The current government is just on crack.
They created huge pollution by switching off nuclear power. And now they are stuck between fossil fuels and renewables. Which still pollutes a lot and it’ll hardly get much better, let alone zero emissions. They also bet on h2 only to scrap or postpone it. Which gives what?
What’s the clown face for? You think Germany is trolling? You think a joke is going on?
There we fucking go. Wasn’t so hard now was it? Funny how high prices for fossil fuels cut through the bullshit so quickly. That’s why I’m loving the oil shock and hope the price never goes back down after the war
I disagree with that. High oil prices help to built alternatives, but low ones destroy the oil industry. No profits no new wells. The best thing is to uses taxes to articially create high oil prices, without giving big oil massive profits.
Totally agree, just one addition. High prices alone don’t create profit, high prices at normal volumes create profit.
We need demand destruction via replacement of infrastructure. Notice how all of a sudden things that were deemed too expensive or impractical are suddenly being done without a fight
Omg. The Brits put their money on sustainability so they can torture the last surviving humans with their food.
Damn, the by-election loss to the Greens must have kick-started something in Starmer’s Labour Party…
I tried to get this code changes in Ontario 16 years ago. No one, at all, gave a fuck in government.
All like ten of them? This needs to be accompanied by a massive house construction campaign; there’s so little new supply of houses that it’s literally causing a housing crisis.
It’s ok to to also require EVs.
