Heritage Solar Slate - Part 2
Heritage Solar Slate
The panels have already been trialed in a couple of locations in the UK, with 340 solar slate panels being installed on a traditional cottage called Y Stabal in Snowdonia National Park. 140 solar slates have also been put on a Grade 2 barn at Maslan Farm in Wiltshire, where it is hoped they will reduce the farm’s energy consumption.
The benefit of installing solar panels in the UK has been given a boost recently with the feed-in tariff plan incentivising those who installed renewable energy systems on their homes. Any surplus energy created can be sold to the National Grid, enabling home and businesses to be paid for generating electricity.
With solar panels becoming cheaper, and in this case, more attractive, it is hoped that the next few years will see an increase in sales of photovoltaic cells and a reduction in carbon emissions and fossil fuel usage.
The UK, as well as other European countries, hoping to get 20% of their energy needs from sustainable sources by 2020, and it is hoped that ‘solar slate’ could aid in this endeavor.
Part 1 on the Heritage Solar Slate.
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