UK solar has been doing great since the prior government killed feed in tariffs and the market bombed 10 years ago.   In the last 5 years UK installs have grown 9X off that low base from 25,000 installs in 2020 to 228,000 in 2025 (OpenSolar estimates).   This 5 year success is without subsidy , with a market businesses can invest in, knowing the economics of solar with batteries allows customers to save money and businesses to make a profit selling those systems. That brings

I read the Great British Energy strategy paper this week — what a disaster. It’s big, top-down, 20th-century, communist-era thinking on energy. Whenever a government says it wants to “shape markets” and “respond to market failures”, allow me to translate: “subsidise uneconomic energy with taxpayers’ money” and “waste billions we don’t have”. Solar and storage are already the lowest-cost solutions, but stupid bureaucracy is holding them back. The UK should focus on bottom-up

How to solve 80% of climate: just digitise the grid and let solar fly! I love the global village that is COP, especially in the polarised, war-mongering world we’re now in. Honestly, it is quite beautiful mingling with all the cultures and peoples of humanity, together physically in one venue – I met scores of amazing, caring people – it’s an environmentalist’s mecca and a beacon of hope for multilateralism. I felt really proud to be a sponsor of the Global Solar Council’s 10

From an inspiring visit to India with 70% solar growth and an ambitious 10m rooftop program, to a week in Australia - another solar star country!  We’re seeing huge growth in battery adoption to add to the 35% solar penetration. Aussie pros have installed 2GWh of distributed battery installs in just the first 4 months of the new battery initiative! The market feels a little scarily hot right now so watch out everyone (I’d prefer a market-driven policy to de-risk this) but the