In a rare moment of parental bonding over energy economics, my mum and I both got quotes for rooftop solar this week. The UK's rooftop solar costs more per unit than Australia's - why, and can we change that?
I wonder if coupling neighbourhood coordination with BESS co-location could encourage landlords to modify their rental’s energy systems. Assuming you can balance lower upfront costs with a large enough revenue-share upside.
According to my estimates UK prices for installed solar PV are substantially less than the USA - up to a half. I’m sure Oz is cheaper but I wouldn’t lump the USA and the UK together so much
Thanks David - my estimates too, there's a chart in the piece comparing US, Australia and UK prices and the US is way worse! I don't lump the UK and US together, nor US and Australia - though the piece was inspired by a series by Volts comparing those two markets. I just use the US as an example of a sunnier climate with larger systems like Australia, and even with this endowment the costs are higher than Britain so sun isn't everything. We've fixed some of the administrative issues like automated planning in the UK, and the majority of my piece was more about how we can aggregate and create efficiencies through scale and coordination to reduce the need for subsidies.
I wonder if coupling neighbourhood coordination with BESS co-location could encourage landlords to modify their rental’s energy systems. Assuming you can balance lower upfront costs with a large enough revenue-share upside.
According to my estimates UK prices for installed solar PV are substantially less than the USA - up to a half. I’m sure Oz is cheaper but I wouldn’t lump the USA and the UK together so much
Thanks David - my estimates too, there's a chart in the piece comparing US, Australia and UK prices and the US is way worse! I don't lump the UK and US together, nor US and Australia - though the piece was inspired by a series by Volts comparing those two markets. I just use the US as an example of a sunnier climate with larger systems like Australia, and even with this endowment the costs are higher than Britain so sun isn't everything. We've fixed some of the administrative issues like automated planning in the UK, and the majority of my piece was more about how we can aggregate and create efficiencies through scale and coordination to reduce the need for subsidies.