Millions of homes could benefit from fully funded solar panel installations
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Labour have promised to treble solar power use in the UK by 2030, with Keir Starmer’s government aiming to usher in a “rooftop revolution” that will see millions of homes fitted with solar panels and other solar technology, in order to bring down domestic energy bills and generate clean energy to impact on carbon emissions.
The aim is to encourage homeowners to adopt solar technology, and allied with solar-related standards for new-build properties, will enable many more households to produce their own electricity. To back up the ambitious plans, funding under a Warm Homes Plan will be available from 2025 which will provide households with the opportunity to install energy efficient measures at their homes, including solar panels and other solar technologies.
How will the Warm Homes Plan help with solar installations?
As a key part of the Warm Homes Plan, the Government has committed with its partners to deliver funding for a range of home energy efficiency measures, including solar panel and batteries. This will not only help them produce their own free electricity to impact on energy bills, but will also reduce carbon emissions in support of the net zero 2050 target.
Under the Warm Homes: Local Grant, households could receive up to £15,000 in funding for energy performance measures including solar panels. This is in addition to the £15k cap set for low carbon heating upgrades such as heat pumps.
Who is eligible for solar funding?
Warm Homes Plan funding aims to help low-income energy inefficient households achieve energy bills savings and carbon savings. Properties need to have a low Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) ratings (bands D to G) or equivalent to be considered for funding.
Those classed as ‘low income’ households who could qualify for grants include:
- Those that reside within deprived areas (certain postcode areas) according to Indices of Multiple Deprivation (IMD)
- Households which can demonstrate receipt of a specified means-tested benefits
- Households with an annual gross income below £36,000
How Can The Effective Energy Group Help You?
When it comes to realising the solar ambitions of the Government, companies like the Effective Energy Group are a vitally important partner. As an umbrella organisation for a group of companies – Effective Home, Effective Energy Solutions, Max Energy, and Aztec Solar – we provide energy-efficiency and renewable energy solutions to households and businesses.
Collectively, we work to provide installation services and access to funding solutions, including Warm Homes Plan and ECO grants for low-income and low energy efficient households. We also support local and national contractors with carbon-reducing initiatives.
Whether you are a homeowner, tenant, or even a landlord looking to adopt solar technology, register your interest and see how we can help when the Warm Homes funding becomes available.
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“I want to unleash a UK solar rooftop revolution. We will encourage builders and homeowners in whatever way we can to deliver this win-win technology to millions of addresses in the UK so people can provide their own electricity, cut their bills and at the same time help fight climate change.”
Ed Miliband
Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero
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Solar Funding Grants FAQs
The new Warm Homes: Local Grant is intended to help low-income homeowners and private tenants with energy performance upgrades including solar. This replaces the Local Authority Delivery Scheme and will start delivery in 2025. Low-income private tenants need the agreement of their landlord to be eligible for support.
Potentially, yes. While the details are still to be fully outlined, the Government has outlined its commitment to helping over 1 million tenant households out of fuel poverty by boosting minimum energy efficiency standards for private and social rented homes by 2030. The intention is that all private and social rented homes should achieve Energy Performance Certificate C or equivalent and solar installation could be one part of that alongside other measures like insulation and heat pumps.
The Warm Homes Plan aims to transform homes across the country and make them cheaper and cleaner to run through installing energy efficiency measures including solar panels, solar batteries and solar thermal technologies.
A list of some of the measures that could be funded by the scheme include the following:
| Energy Performance Measures | Low Carbon Heat |
| Cavity Wall Insulation | Air Source Heat Pump |
| Flat Roof Insulation | Ground Source Heat Pump |
| Internal Wall Insulation | Hybrid Heat Pumps (for homes currently heated by mains gas) |
| Loft Insulation | Shared Ground Loops |
| Park Home Insulation | Wet Central Heating (a system using water to distribute heat) |
| Room-in-roof Insulation | Biomass |
| Solid/External Wall Insulation | High Retention Storage Heaters |
| Underfloor Insulation | |
| Heating Controls | |
| Hot Water Cylinder Insulation | |
| Hot Water Cylinder Thermostat | |
| Hot Water Cylinder/Tank | |
| Low energy lighting | |
| Solar PV | |
| Solar Thermal | |
| Battery Storage | |
| Digital/Smart Controls | |
| Draughtproofing | |
| Double/Triple Glazing | |
| Energy Efficiency Doors |
The installation of solar panels can bring significant annual savings for households, with typical savings often being over £500. The actual size of your savings will be determined by many different factors including your location (as this affects how much sunlight you get), how much of the solar energy you are able to use yourself, whether you install a solar diverter to send surplus electricity power and immersion heater for hot water, and whether you receive export payments like the Smart Export Guarantee.
| With SEG | With Diverter & SEG | |
| Home all day | £690 | £600 |
| Home in mornings | £670 | £570 |
| Home in afternoons | £660 | £550 |
| Out until 4pm | £620 | £520 |
| Out until 4pm | £610 | £510 |
Estimated annual savings from the Energy Saving Trust based on fuel prices as of October 2024
Homeowners are not required or expected to make any contributions to the cost of solar upgrades. The available funding is capped at £15,000.
Solar panels are usually considered Permitted Development, and therefore do not require planning permission, though some restrictions still apply, especially within conservation areas and on listed buildings. These restrictions could also be re-examined by the Government, increasing the possibility of solar panels for many more properties.