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Homes across UK to get low- or no-interest loans to fund solar panels and heat pumps Economy Environment (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] -2 points 1 week ago* (10 children)

Terrible news. Absolutely dogshit policy. This is a waste of capital if you goal is more energy generation and it benefits people rich enough to get solar panels at the expensive of poor people.

What happens is now you get rich people not paying for electricity except when they need it so running costs of grid infra are pushed onto poor people then there is a no sun and these people return to the grid to spike usage.

Better to build out a big solar project and spread the gains fairly.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    How is infrastructure costing passed on to consumers in the UK? In Australia we have a daily charge that is for every day your connection point is connected to the grid, then usage charges on top. With the recent solar and battery rebates peak wholesale electricity rates have dropped. Retail electricity rates haven't, and daily charges have doubled.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago* (4 children)

    If the government built their own solar panel farms, it doesn't fix the issue you described (no sun).

    I don't understand how because 1 person moves to solar it's a negative for anyone else.

    As the market moves to solar and wind, other generation duties will begin to focus on peak usage (ie no sun).

    Eventually fuel powered generation will transition to energy capture and release for those periods.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Yes it does because its built as part of the national grid with the nessesary planning and thought. Unlike dumping all that money into inefficient solar panels hanging off peoples balconies

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Everyone is better off with decentralised solar. Less demand on the grid, becoming more self sufficient, less reliance on profit machines. Every home should have solar. Your attitude to this couldn't be more backward thinking.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 days ago

    The options are no solar or home solar. The answer is the government put up capital to buy solar on the grid vs government puts up capital and people put up capital to buy solar. This is less efficient overall, you spend more and get less and the outcomes are unequal. You need a grid, it needs to support cities and industry, it needs to be there for cloudy days. If you pay people to help them get their own solar that demand doesnt leave the grid but the recurring revenue does.

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