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ritain’s first low
cost ‘energy positive’ house, which can generate more electricity than its
occupants will use, opens on Thursday despite George Osborne axing plans to
make house builders meet tough low carbon housing targets from next year.
The modest three-bedroom house built in just 16 weeks on an
industrial estate outside Bridgend in Wales cost just £125,000 to build and,
said its Cardiff University designers, will let occupants use the sun to pay
the rent.
Using batteries to store the electricity which it generates
from the solar panels that function as the roof, and having massive amounts of
insulation to reduce energy use in winter months, it should be able to export
electricity to the national grid for eight months of the year.
Read the Guardian story - “Britain's first 'energy positive'house opens in Wales”.
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