{"id":13204,"date":"2019-08-23T13:42:37","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T12:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eco2solar.co.uk\/?p=13204"},"modified":"2019-08-23T13:44:15","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T12:44:15","slug":"why-we-must-produce-energy-at-a-local-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eco2solar.co.uk\/hq-eco2\/why-we-must-produce-energy-at-a-local-level\/","title":{"rendered":"WHY WE MUST PRODUCE ENERGY AT A LOCAL LEVEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">When we consider the future of energy, we\u2019re moving towards more vehicles powered by electricity rather than fossil fuels, and more electric heating rather than gas, so it\u2019s clear that we\u2019re going to need a lot more electrical energy. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In a few short years, it\u2019s likely we\u2019ll be using ten times as much electricity per household as we do now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">That means developers building a new housing estate, university or school in a town or village not only need to be able to generate ten times as much energy at any given time, but also consider how to deliver it into and out of the area. Towns would need to upgrade their infrastructure, cables and sub-stations, which could cost millions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">So where will this energy come from? We already know that vast, polluting power stations which rely on coal and other fossil fuels are becoming redundant on a number of different levels. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">From 2050, our goal as a country is to reach a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-48596775\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s2\">Net Zero target<\/span><\/a>, meaning that none of our energy must come from fossil fuels on a disposable basis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Governments around the world are divesting from coal-powered plants and investing in renewable energies. In the UK, that\u2019s going to form an essential part of meeting our climate change agenda, now and into the future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">That\u2019s why we need to consider how we\u2019re going to deliver more power, as well as generating it \u2013 which invariably leads to one clear conclusion; we need more solar. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Solar energy is by far the most convenient and cost-effective renewable energy which can be easily added onto most buildings to generate power locally. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Combined with battery storage and smart technologies, it offers us a clear model for a sustainable future where clean power is not only generated locally but delivered within a short radius and exported to communities within our regions.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">When we consider the future of energy, we\u2019re moving towards more vehicles powered by electricity rather than fossil fuels, and more electric heating rather than gas, so it\u2019s clear that we\u2019re going to need a lot more electrical energy. In a few short years, it\u2019s likely we\u2019ll be using ten times as much electricity per&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11439,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eco2solar.co.uk\/hq-eco2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eco2solar.co.uk\/hq-eco2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eco2solar.co.uk\/hq-eco2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eco2solar.co.uk\/hq-eco2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eco2solar.co.uk\/hq-eco2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eco2solar.co.uk\/hq-eco2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13205,"href":"https:\/\/www.eco2solar.co.uk\/hq-eco2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13204\/revisions\/13205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eco2solar.co.uk\/hq-eco2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eco2solar.co.uk\/hq-eco2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eco2solar.co.uk\/hq-eco2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eco2solar.co.uk\/hq-eco2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}