[pjc50]

> Like the requirements that new houses have roof top solar.

As a CPA child, you should understand that the same money is very different when it comes out of a different account.

(everyone watches two critical numbers, income tax and government deficit, so the #1 priority is to hide capital spending somewhere else, in this case by moving it to buyers of new homes)

[ben_w]

While true in general, I suspect that this won't change house prices as (I think) those are more driven by supply-demand imbalances rather than the actual costs, and that the increase in costs will go into someone else's profit margin, which may be some mix of the builders (although they're famously opaque from all the sub-contracting) and the land owners.

[Ray20]

Regulations like these make the entire renewable energy sector seem like a crazy scam and greenwashing.

They might not have much of an impact on property values (certainly no more than the plethora of existing building regulations). But we shouldn't be surprised if as a result people vote for a candidate whose campaign promise consists of picking up a grenade launcher and blowing up windmills.

[ben_w]

On the one hand, it's been obviously economically a good idea to require this for about a decade, both because PV is cheap and would pay for itself even at full price and also because doing it construction time is cheaper than doing it later.

Even moreso now, because PV is now cheaper per square metre than tiles or fences, even if you don't hook it up to the grid afterwards.

On the other hand, this is the UK so maybe. They did Brexit and somehow Farage hasn't been deported for the consequences.