11 June 2025Ministers are publishing the Future Homes Standard this autumn and have confirmed that solar panels will be included, which should see installation on most new build homes. The new proposals could cut energy bills significantly for recipients of new builds, ‘tackling the cost of living for aspirational young families and new house buyers’.
Proposed changes also include low-carbon heating, such as ‘heat pumps and high levels of energy efficiency, cutting people’s energy bills and boosting the nation’s energy security with clean, homegrown power, in line with the Prime Minister’s Plan for Change’.
The Future Homes Standard would see building regulations amended to ‘explicitly promote solar for the first time, subject to practical limits with flexibility in place for new homes surrounded by trees or with lots of shade overhead’.
Read the government’s full announcement here.
