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The bill, which is also referred to as the Sunshine Bill, would generally require that an area the equivalent at least 40% of a new home’s ground floor area would be covered by a solar system. Image: Geograph via Wikimedia Commons.

Mandated rooftop solar could come without a new future homes standard

January 20, 2025
Tomorrow (17 January), the government will debate a new bill that would require all new homes to have solar PV generation installed.

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