Reasons to be cheerful
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The red-brick Frampton Park Estate, a set of five-story social housing blocks in east London, is built like many other residential complexes in the British capital. Even the lines of solar panels that cover the roofs of the estate are an increasingly common sight.
The system, developed in partnership with Hackney Council’s energy services arm, Hackney Light and Power, works thanks to what are known as solar microgrids, semi-autonomous electricity networks supplied by the rooftop-generated solar electricity. The policy changes were largely to do with how wiring for microgrids can be used in buildings. Frampton represents the first use case in the U.K.
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