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Originally Posted by JockoT
The UK government have announced that they are to fund the installation of 800,000 solar panels to social funded homes across England and Wales, over the next 5 years. These will be installed at no cost to the tenants.
The firm providing the panels, Solarplicity, will target military veterans when it recruits staff to install the panels.
Solar power deal will lower social tenants' energy bills - BBC News |
I did some work like this as a volunteer in Los Angeles a couple summers. It was for a nonprofit called grid alternatives. We put solar panels on low income families' homes free of charge. The panels were subsidized by the state of California if I recall correctly. The policy goal is not just to help low income families but to create a distributed solar array across California. Partly as a result of such policies, California has one of the highest renewable energy proportions in its energy combination in the USA.