The UK's new renewable course:the revolution starts from the roof

The British government is now aiming to build three solar parks to power 92,000 homes and a revolution in rooftop panels.

• The new UK government has launched a very ambitious solar plan:3 parks planned and extensive investments in panels on the roofs of buildings.
• The three solar parks will provide a combined capacity of approximately 1.35 gigawatts, equivalent to nearly 10 percent of the country's current solar capacity.
• There will be 92 thousand new homes powered exclusively by solar energy, but the efficiency improvement will also concern many existing homes.

In the UK they have already called it rooftop revolution, the revolution on the roofs.The fact is that the new Labor government led by Keir Starmer has already announced a series of "revolutionary" initiatives aimed at transforming London's energy landscape throughinstalling solar panels on the roofs of millions of homes, a decisive step to reduce energy bills and tackle the climate crisis in an "energetic" way to say the least.Moving from the rooftops, but also from the parks.

Between rooftop revolution and 3 new solar parks 

The Starmer government's rooftop revolution aims to make solar energy a central component of British homes:he explained it clearly Energy Minister Ed Miliband.By working with the construction sector, the government intends to facilitate the purchase of new homes already equipped with solar panels and promote the installation of these technologies on existing homes.Starting next year, explains the British newspaper The Guardian, the government is considering introducing new mandatory solar energy standards for new builds, a change that could transform the way homes are built in the UK.

Parallel to the rooftop revolution, However, Miliband also approved the construction of three huge solar farms in eastern England: Gate Burton in Lincolnshire, the power station of Sunnica on the Suffolk-Cambridgeshire border and Mallard Pass on the Lincolnshire-Rutland border.These parks, previously blocked by Conservative ministers, will provide a combined capacity of approx 1.35 gigawatts, equivalent to nearly 10 percent of the country's current solar capacity.

Not just solar, a new air (or rather, wind) is blowing in the United Kingdom

Miliband promised to triple solar energy in the UK by 2030, doubling onshore wind energy and quadrupling offshore wind energy.“I want to unleash a rooftop revolution in the United Kingdom,” declared the Labor minister, emphasizing the environmental and economic benefits of this transition.

The initiative has received the approval of British energy experts, who point out that the expansion of solar energy in the south of the country can relieve congestion on transmission lines, currently overloaded in transporting energy from north to south. Sugandha Srivastav, from the Smith School of Enterprise and Environment at the University of Oxford, highlighted to the Guardian for example that this development will help keep energy costs low, an urgent need in the current context of unstable gas prices.The opening of new solar parks will also strengthen the UK's ability to use solar energy, powering around 92 thousand new homes over the next 60 years and significantly contributing to the fight against climate change.

Despite the many expected benefits, the government's decisions have not been welcomed by everyone.The Conservative MP Alicia Kearns, expressed strong criticism regarding the approval of the Mallard Pass solar park, reflecting local concerns about the environmental and landscape impact of the new plants.However, the government is currently pushing ahead, underlining the importance of these initiatives for the production of clean energy and their ability to power tens of thousands of homes, contributing to a sustainable energy transition.But, they underline from Downing Street, the rooftop revolution it would also be an investment in the energy future of the United Kingdom, which would almost paradoxically position a country among the least sunny in Europe, like Great Britain, in a leader in the production of solar energy, and therefore, renewable and in the promotion of green technologies.