{"id":296,"date":"2009-10-18T17:20:58","date_gmt":"2009-10-18T21:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/energyrealist.com\/?p=296"},"modified":"2009-10-18T17:20:58","modified_gmt":"2009-10-18T21:20:58","slug":"english-sunshine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/?p=296","title":{"rendered":"English sunshine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2009\/oct\/18\/lucy-siegle-solar-power-energy-panels\">This article by Lucy Siegle of The Guardian<\/a> outlines how things look, sun wise, in the UK. \u00a0 &#8220;Is this a good time to splash out on solar energy? \u00a0The panels are cheaper than ever and you can sell your surplus energy to the grid. No wonder, the future&#8217;s bright for solar power.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The abbreviation KWp in the article refers to the <em>peak<\/em> solar panel output, i.e. kilo-watt peak.<\/p>\n<p>April 2010 is the key date. \u00a0At that point UK residents producing surplus electricity will get a guaranteed rate, for a set number of years. \u00a0This sort of scheme is a basic requirement for broad based acceptance of residential solar PV. \u00a0The article also mentions the much larger number of installations in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>There are some good leads from this page, and although the costs are in pounds, and the UK gets a lot less sun than most of the US, this is a good discussion to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solar PV systems are good house guests, and the clouds are definitely clearing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297,"href":"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}