If you are retired or considering retiring, no doubt one of your concerns will be how to keep your standard cost-of-living bills like electricity at a manageable level. After all, once you aren’t earning an income from a job (or your own business), consistently rising bills are going to make life very difficult at some […]

With a mild winter over and done with, energy bills have been slowly creeping down thanks to some drops in wholesale prices. However, don’t be lulled into a false sense of security, as the energy companies will also be hurting thanks to profit drops over winter, so you should anticipate them putting their prices up soon to make up for lost profits!

You’ve probably heard that solar is a lot cheaper than it used to be. That would be an understatement. In fact, when Solar Market started out in 2010, a baby-sized 1kW solar system would have cost you close to 10,000 pounds.

It may be hard to believe, but the financial case for solar in the UK has never been stronger. In fact, if you’re sick of making pennies from the interest on your savings, and aren’t excited by the prospect of dealing with an increasingly volatile stock market, then there might not be a smarter or safer investment opportunity going around at the moment for home owners than solar.

With more than 709,550 UK households having solar panels on their roof as of May 2015, 4 major myths about the value of solar still persist.