Photovoltaic Solar Panels have an important role in slowing down climate change
With the Copenhagen Climate Talks opening next week, what better time to think of how you can help bring about zero carbon emissions in the UK. As Mike Childs, Friends of the Earth’s Head of Climate change says: “The cost of investing in renewable energy, green technology and reducing energy waste will be far outweighed by the cost of catastrophic climate change if we fail to take action now.”
Installing photovoltaic solar panels are one way of reducing carbon emissions. Tim Bruton, the Chief Technology Officer of the New & Renewable Energy Centre (NAREC), reports ‘putting solar panels on south facing buildings could generate all the electricity needed in the UK’. In fact, if your roof faces anywhere between south-east and south-west you can generate plenty of your own solar electricity and with the new proposed feed-in tariffs, due to start in April 2010, you can make a profit too.
