Solar panels
Solar panels create clean electricity from sunlight and can reduce your household emissions and save you money. A typical home could save around 1 tonne of CO2 a year with solar panels. The electricity generated from the panels is free and you may be able to sell extra energy back to the grid. Solar panels can be especially useful and cost saving if paired with a heat pump or an electric vehicle charger.
The Energy Saving Trust has a step-by-step guide to installing rooftop solar panels on your home.
You can get in touch with your energy supplier to see if they offer any financial support for solar installations.
The UK Government is currently working to make plug-in solar more widely available. These are small systems that can plug into a regular wall socket to feed renewable energy directly to your home.
Get an idea of how many solar panels could fit on your roof and how much money and emissions you could save with the Energy Saving Trust’s solar panel calculator.
