Solar panels could cut fuel-poor UK families’ energy bills by 24%, says study | Solar power
A report found that poor families can reduce their energy bills by a quarter of if the solar panels are installed on the roofs of the houses.
However, the costs offered means that those who benefit more than low energy bills are prevented from installing panels, according to what he said. Decision Corporation Thinktank.
Economists behind the research called on the government to consider providing grants or loans that have been tested for means to cover these costs and ensure that the poorest families are awarded a fair price for any surplus energy that is then sold to the network.
Poor fuel families, of which 3.6 million are in the United Kingdom, are defined as those who spend more than ten income available on energy bills. The report said that savings of solar panels on the surface can reduce energy bills by 24 %. He added that the launch of successful panels can raise 1.2 million people from fuel poverty, in addition to helping to remove carbon from the UK electricity system.
According to the research, a family with 3KW solar panel can provide up to 440 pounds per year.
The report indicated that the 3kW solar panel costs about 6500 pounds, which puts it out of a long -to -income families, three out of five of them, their number is less than 1,000 pounds. These high costs mean only 8 % of families in the UK have solar panels.
“Solar panels on the surface can reduce energy bills in poor families by about a quarter of them, and their returns are well returned with other bills cutting measures. But despite this winning scenario, few families are few , Especially in the poorest areas, it is installed.
“The government must include a new support plan that has been tested for the means of solar panels in the upcoming hot house plan. This may really lead to a” revolution on the surface “and ensures that the consumer benefits from this net transition zero is not limited to the richer families.”
The authors indicated that the decrease in government support in recent years have stopped absorbing solar panels. In 2015, more solar panels were installed in the poorest regions (35 %) more than the richest (31 %). However, in that year, then Prime Minister David Cameron, Subsidies For solar installation, meaning that by 2023, paintings were more than twice that were likely to be installed in the richest neighborhoods such as the poorest.
Guardian Recently revealed The government was considering making solar panels optional on new construction houses in new construction standards, not mandatory.
A separate study by RSPB, which was also released on Thursday, showed that solar farms can provide benefits for biological diversity in areas with farm farms. The research conducted by the Charitable Foundation and the University of Cambridge found that the solar farms located in East Angelia – a hectare of hectare – contain a greater number of birds and the total number of individuals from the lands suitable for agriculture.
These solar farms, which were managed for nature and were surrounding the edges and not cutting the grass, supported more birds than those that were continuing with sheep, found the report, which was published in Bird Study magazine.
It was the highest abundance of birds with a red list and directed to amber (such as corn, Yellowhammer and Linnet) in the solar energy farms that were managed for nature, and were much higher than it was in both the lands surrounding agriculture and in the solar sites that they did not It contains hedge.
