A few panels.

[ALAN/ALAN D]

No off road parking.
No one can charge a car because cable lays across footpath.
Quite a few panels.
How does a Bird decide where to Pooo next.

[Andy]

How does a Bird decide where to Pooo next.

That's easy. The top right hand corner going by my panels.

[dan_b]

Where's this?
Wonder do any of them have batteries?

[Mr Gus]

That looks like ex raf sold off on the cheap to offshore entities & rented out to local councils with little modernisation.

The concrete garden posts are a give away for military housing (sold to offshore tax avoiders locally here too) no visible modernisation to the exteriors (so presumably, maybe more prefabricated houses in essence)

Parking used to be strange on the base, visitors were allowed to park outside the houses but it was rare to see a car in the road (they were all group parking elsewhere on the base & brought round by the occupants), presumably stiff military "access" requirements?

If so it's a profitable addition for the owner rinsing & repeating, however it is just as likely to be a german estate that is a council incentive, & we know how different the approach is to solar out there..

..in the meantime it is reported that renewables uptake has dropped off by 10% here.

[Tay]

I think I can do one better than that..

I walk my dog across the south downs and to access it I go up a small farm road, I have been walking there for the last 4-5 years without ever noticing the barn shown...and, to be fair only noticed when my interest in Solar was piqued.

I have never ever seen any activity at the large office there and the barn is just open air space. there are some offices just at the back, but very small..

There is 91 panels on that roof, its been there according to Google since 2016 even if they are 100w panels thats a big chunk of power generation. I was wondering if they were running crypto stuff but cant see any obvious air cons. I wonder how much that has made in the last 7 years?.

[openspaceman]

I see CPRE are running a petition to persuade the government to insist solar panels go on rooftops instead of taking up 180,000 hectares of farmland.

[Stinsy]

I do see lots of new-builds going up without a panel. Given that in-roof panels cost almost the same as roofing materials this is a huuuge oversight. Basically if you don’t mandate it they won’t build it.

[openspaceman]

Yes, there are two airfields up for development near me, I have looked at the plans for the one where I walk the dogs and could see no mention of PV roofs.

[Tay]

I do see lots of new-builds going up without a panel. Given that in-roof panels cost almost the same as roofing materials this is a huuuge oversight. Basically if you don’t mandate it they won’t build it.

There appears to be nothing enshrined in law that new builds should have solar, especially now they have said new gas boiler installs are going the way of the dinosaurs.

In my mind this is madness, the cost to add solar when building a new house seems tiny. The govt which ever one gets in next should ensure that levels of insulation, heating and power efficiencies/generation are a must for new builds. Councils should have targets too for social housing instead of investing in offshore get rich quick schemes.

[sharpener]

I see CPRE are running a petition to persuade the government to insist solar panels go on rooftops instead of taking up 180,000 hectares of farmland.

Travelled by train from Cambridge to Lincoln at the w/e so a good opportunity to rubberneck. It is all high grade farmland so a pity to see it covered in many new solar farms. And also new wind turbines but at least they don't interfere much with farming, and to my mind are easier on the eye than a sea of panels.

Maybe storage should be mandatory in new houses as well? All the local solar generation must be getting to be a headache for the DNOs trying to keep voltage swings within reasonable bounds. Voltage at the inverter terminals in my loft now regularly 252.

All very well in terms of aggregate generation, but none of this fixes the real-time balance on a winter evening when a blocking high means little or no wind, gas generation is then still required in huge volume, but if the plants are otherwise idle where is the ROI to justify building them? Nukes would have been a good part of the answer, but designed individually and taking so long to construct they will not keep the lights on starting from now.