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

What a strange world we live in. The UK and US, long-time bastions of the free market, are now pulling the strings, dictating the energy mix from upon high, setting the supply dial for years to come. In a world of rapidly falling solar and storage costs, that has grave consequences for the future of these economies. Solar with storage is already today the lowest cost energy in the world. The falling cost of these mass-manufactured technologies continue to destroy projections,