Eleven songs for the darker evenings, from Ghostbusters to Here Comes the Sun, most with a line about the day job. Spooky, not scary.
Why we are employing our own insulation installers, plasterers, roofers and decorators as ECO ends and the Warm Homes Plan routes funding through councils.
Thirteen songs whose titles or band names play on electricity, in one player you can leave running. Plus a themed playlist every month, starting with Halloween.
Perovskite tandem cells have hit 35.5% in the lab. Who really leads, why they are not on UK roofs yet, what it means for cost and payback, and why we fit Aiko.
Bills are forecast to rise 16% in January to £1,999 a year, the biggest jump in four years. What it means for your bill, and the part you can control.
What MCS certification means for solar panels and home batteries, from who checks installers to the paperwork and protection you should expect.
The NEC opens tomorrow with 250 speakers across 125 sessions. The fourteen an installer should be sitting in, and why each one changes what we put on a roof.
Every Premier League club ranked on environmental sustainability, with a solar lens: two grounds have panels on the stadium, four more have them planned.
13.5 kWh, the solar inverter built in, and enough output to run a whole house. What Powerwall 3 actually does, and when it is the wrong choice.
A day with Aiko at Intersolar Europe: what optimisers do, why Aiko moved the fix into the cell, what that does to payback, and why all black suits a.
Lancaster City Council has approved a solar canopy, a battery and eight rapid chargers on the Auction Mart car park. We're not involved, but the.
A school does not ring three installers. The frameworks, the funding routes, and the three technical questions to settle before anyone designs anything.
Same panels, same electricity, twenty five times the difference in what somebody pays you for it. And every rate above 15p has one thing in common.
From 27 August you can buy a solar kit off a shelf and plug it into a socket. What the rules actually require, and the paperwork nobody is mentioning.
Fitted between 2011 and 2019 with no storage? Your roof has been giving most of it away. Whether you can add a battery is a narrower question than people assume.
The government cut VAT on electricity to soften it. The wholesale gas market swallowed the cut before it arrived. Here is the one part of your bill.
Which EFL clubs have solar on the roof, what the Green Clubs grades mean, and why Deepdale saves £84,000 a year. A Lancashire league table.
Rate discounts, cashback and zero per cent borrowing, compared. What each lender actually requires, and the conditions people get caught out by.
We are at the NEC from 22 to 24 September. All three of the brands we fit are exhibiting, and here is what we want to find out from them.
Almost everyone sizes a battery against their roof. It should be sized against their evenings. How to work out the figure that actually matters.
Six Lancashire house types, six different solar answers. Stone terraces, interwar semis, estate houses, new builds, bungalows and farmhouses.
Solar in Lancashire is not the same job as solar in Surrey. Housing stock, shading, batteries, planning and the process, from a Clitheroe installer.
Shading costs more output than orientation or panel brand. What shades a Lancashire roof, and the three ways to deal with it.
New rules let you buy a solar kit off a shelf and plug it into a socket. What it will do, what it will not, and the paperwork nobody is mentioning.
Channel 4’s programme on passive house design, and what Energy House 2.0 tells us about building homes that barely need heating.
How the new government funding could bring relief to households worried about the cost of heating their homes.
The government has unveiled a £15 billion initiative aiming to tackle rising energy bills and the need for greener home heating.