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Domestic Solar PV27 August 2026
Plug-in solar is now legal in Great Britain
From 27 August 2026 it became legal to connect a small solar panel kit to a home’s electricity supply through an ordinary plug socket.…
News & Policy24 March 2026
Solar panels and heat pumps to be standard on new homes
On 24 March 2026 the government published the Future Homes Standard, the update to the Building Regulations in England that changes how new homes…
Battery Storage21 January 2026
The Warm Homes Plan: support for solar panels and batteries
In January 2026 the government published its Warm Homes Plan, setting out £15 billion of public money for home energy upgrades up to 2030.…
16 April 2018
A Sunny Future for Business
Most businesses operate in the daytime so their energy consumption occurs at the same time as the solar energy generation, a perfect demand matching…
16 April 2018
Sunshine for the Consumer
The first thing is to look at your energy use, what can you do to reduce your consumption? Insulation is the first thing, often…
A very appropriate quote on price and value ...little has changed in the principles of business over the last 120 years!
There is hardly anything in the world that someone cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price alone are that person's lawful prey. It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot - it can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better.