Most new build homes must be fitted with solar panels

Energy Secretary Ed Milliband has said that builders will need to fit solar panels for the “vast majority” of the new build Holmes in England.

Rules will require developers to add panels until the buildings come under some discounts such as being covered by shadow.

Talking to the BBC, Miliband said that the step was “simply general knowledge”, saying that solar panels would save the specific domestic of £ 500 per year on their energy bills.

The Home Builders Federation said that it supported more panels, but warned against starting a “burden” paperwork, stating that it could damage government efforts for construction of 1.5 million new houses by 2029.

Rules will be included in the standard of future homes, which will expand a comprehensive plan to improve energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions.

The government says it will be published in autumn, but will have a transitional period for developers to accommodate regulation changes.

Current building rules do not force developers to add solar panels to new homes.

The final orthodox government consulted on the new rules, including a proposal that the new build homes should have a roofing solar panels equal to 40% of the building.

However, he was excluded from power before implementing his proposed changes.

Labor government is now promising to introduce rules that will make the developers mandatory to add solar panels to all new buildings.

Asked if the government would stick to the 40% figure proposed by the previous orthodox government, Miliband said the details would be determined in the autumn.

“The problem about the previous system was that it was said that you should be a certain percentage of coverage of solar panels, but if you cannot achieve that percentage then you don’t have to do anything.

“Under our plans, we are not going to say so. We are going to say that even if you cannot hit 40%, you will still have some solar panels, except rare extraordinary cases.”

Miliband said that the number of houses with solar panels is “too much, much”: “It has almost become universal.”

Asked if he would pass the cost of connecting solar panels on worried developers buyers, Miliband said he would not think the prices of the house would have any impact.

Home Builders Federation chief Neil Jefferson stated that two of the five new houses had solar panels and in the industry “was being used rapidly to include solar panels within the construction of new houses”.

“The government needs to keep in mind just to ensure that it does not write much on the roofs and gives a mandate.”

“If every house needs to be applied on a discount basis, which will slow down the delivery of desperate-essential new houses, then that administration will be a burden.”

Chris Hevet from Trade Body Solar Energy UK said that local authorities should be “cautious” to ensure that developers were fulfilling their obligations, but they said that it would be quite easy to “implement”.

He also said that he did not expect that many houses would be exempted, guessing that 90% of the new build homes would have to follow the new rules.

Asked if there is a skill to live with demand in this field, Mr. Hewt said: “We definitely know that we need to train more people … This is something that we are working as an industry.”

This announcement comes after a week when the government dug a plan rule so that it could make it easier for people to install heat pumps in their homes.

Increasing solar energy is a way that the government expects to reduce the country’s carbon emissions.

The UK is legally committed to reaching its net zero target by 2050, which means that the UK should cut carbon emissions unless it is in line with the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement.

In 2022, emissions from residential buildings made 20% of greenhouse gas emissions in the UK.

The advisory body of the government, the Climate Change Committee has said that the UK will not be able to meet its goals without “full diffraction of housing stock”.

According to the analysis of the carbon brief, the electricity generated by solar sites in the UK hit the record high this year, which is partially run by the especially sunny weather.

Between January and May, levels 2024 were 42% higher than the same period and a 160% increase was marked in the last decade.

However, solar energy remains the sixth largest source of electricity in gas, wind, import, atomic and biomass, Britain’s sixth largest source.

The Net-Zero target was set by the previous orthodox government and maintained by labor.

However, recently conservative leader Kemi Badenoch Where is The goal is “impossible” to achieve “without a severe decline in our standard of living or by insolling us.

The Reform UK has called for scrapping the target completely, arguing that it has led to high energy bills, while Greens and Liberal Democrats want the government to faster the target.

Liberal Democrats claimed credit for the government’s move to make solar power generation technology compulsory for new homes.

Lib Dame MP Max Wilkinson, who is trying to change the law for solar needs at newbield houses, said the news will help us to fight the cost-living crisis by reducing the energy bills of the people, reducing the carbon emissions “.