Tighter rules on the carbon footprint of new-build homes in England could likely trigger a fresh boom for residential solar.
New homes will be required to produce 31 percent less carbon dioxide than they do now, according to plans laid out this week, which will require better energy efficiency and being “heat pump ready.” In the vast majority of cases, it is expected that solar will be the most cost-effective way for homebuilders to remain below the carbon threshold.
The new rules are expected to pass into law in the spring of 2021, and they will likely begin to be applied to new building plans starting in the spring of 2022. They are the precursor to a much stricter set of regulations, the Future Homes Standard, to be implemented in 2025 and which will cut permitted emissions by 80 percent.
electricity, rather than gas lean and diesel. that is going to require hiring millions of people to restore our new types of transportation infrastructure, which we re doing today in my state. we re going to have to have buildings that don t use energy. frankly, we re building those net zero homes and buildings today in my state. we re going to have to have manufacturing facilities to build batteries where we have been having oil fields. that requires massive transformation, and it s going to grow jobs, just like the apollo project did. that s why i named my book the apollo project. final question here, do you support abolishing the filibuster? you know, i m going to have to get back to you on that. i certainly did when i was in the house. but as president, i m going to defer to our next meeting when we can talk more about this, chris. i m curious about your answer, because a lot of the things are going to be tough with that 60 vote threshold.
installment in the stimulus package years ago, $90 billion into clean energy, which was a small down payment of something that needs to be larger. much larger, right? much larger. we re going to have to be much larger than that. but we can t be dissuaded by republican rhetoric. they were all deficit hawks until they passed a $1.5 trillion deficit in their tax cut. we know we can finance this. there are multiple ways to do it. but when you think about the scale of this challenge, realize this several decades from now, we are going to have to have a transportation system that largely is based on electricity, rather than gas lean and diesel. that is going to require hiring millions of people to restore our new types of transportation infrastructure, which we re doing today in my state. we re going to have to have buildings that don t use energy. frankly, we re building those net zero homes and buildings today in my state.