🌳 NEIGHBOURS & SHADE ⚖️ UK LAW, PLAIN ENGLISH 📅 CHECKED AUGUST 2026 A reader emailed me last month: “Our neighbour’s conifers have grown two metres since we fitted our panels, and our winter generation is basically gone. Can we make him cut them?” I’ve spent the years since my first solar job watching this…
Updated 22 August 2026 Checked against Companies House Two big, genuinely well-known names in UK solar have gone into administration this year. I’ve dug through the actual court filings and administrator reports rather than repeating rumours — here’s exactly what happened, in plain English. ⏱ 7-min read 📍 UK-wide ✅ Sourced from official filings Let…
☀️ UK SOLAR + BATTERY 🔋 TARIFF INVESTIGATION 📅 CHECKED AUGUST 2026 I’ve spent the last few weeks digging through tariff small print, forum threads and my own monitoring app to answer one question readers keep emailing me about: is your “smart” tariff quietly eating your stored solar? Here’s everything I found, in plain English….
⚠️ Policy Check · 2026 Edition I’ve read more home insurance policy wordings this year than I care to admit — because a solar fire is exactly the kind of rare, high-value claim where the small print decides everything. Here’s every clause that can void your payout, in plain English, and the five-minute fixes that…
☀️ UK SOLAR · SEG TROUBLESHOOTING · UPDATED AUGUST 2026 Smart Meter Not Sending Export Readings? SEG Fix Guide 2026 My export readings vanished for four months and nobody noticed — not me, not the app, not the supplier. Here’s everything I’ve since learned about why a smart meter stops sending export readings for the…
Bird Proofing · Updated August 2026 Solar Panel Pigeon Mesh Cost UK 2026: Prices, Pros, Cons & Verdict Pigeons have discovered your panels are the perfect flat-free housing with a sun terrace. Here’s exactly what stopping them costs in 2026 — and whether it’s worth it. SolarBriton Investigations · 8 min read · UK prices…
93 Solar Inverter Flaws: UK Security Scare Explained (2026) Cyber Security · UK Solar · Updated 18 August 2026 93 Security Flaws Found in the Solar Inverters Powering UK Homes — The UK Security Scare Explained Headlines say the box on your wall could be hacked. We dug into the actual research, spoke to the…
⚡ Energy Policy · Updated August 2026 Zonal Electricity Pricing: Why Octopus Wanted Regional Prices, and What It Means for Solar Owners This one ran for three years, got genuinely heated, and then got decided without half the country noticing. Here’s what zonal pricing actually was, why Octopus Energy fought so hard for it, why…
Supply chain & ethics · 2026 China’s Solar Supply Chain and Forced-Labour Import Concerns This isn’t a comfortable subject, but it’s one more UK buyers are asking about, so it deserves a straight answer. Here’s what independently published research has actually found, what the UK government is doing about it right now, and what you…
Landlord Compliance · EPC Reforms Are Landlords About to Be Forced to Fit Solar Under EPC Reforms? 📅 Updated August 2026 ⏱ 9-min read 🏠 Private Rented Sector Are Landlords About to Be Forced to Fit Solar Under EPC Reforms? EPC Band C · Private Rented Sector · 1 October 2030 If you let out…