SET Proceedings 2978-4387 Caravel Press 10.65582/set.2009.057 2009.057 The potential for renewables in housing in the UK FoxCaroline Elizabeth PlattStephen School of the Built Environment, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK 31082009 8 978-3-9813246-1-7 1 6 31 August 2009 © 2009 Copyright WSSET 2009

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the use of renewable energy technologies, mainly solar photo-voltaics and wind turbines, as a means of generating electricity in a domestic situation. The opinions, preferences and behaviours of the general public were evaluated through a homeowner survey. Also surveyed were the opinions of architects and engineers, and manufacturers and suppliers of renewable energy technologies. The overall findings of the research cast doubt on the applicability of micro-wind power in a domestic setting. However they showed that solar power has great potential for the future of domestic microgeneration, with its greatest barrier being cost.

 renewable energy opinions potential micro-wind photo-voltaics 31 August to 3 September 2009 8th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies SET2009 8 Aachen, Germany