Danny Cox recently presented his radio show from a very special house. Sue Roaf's home is the first low energy house in the UK with a fully integrated photovoltaic roof. This means she gets all her electricity from special solar panels.
The house was designed to function as an ordinary standard family home which requires only a minimum amount of energy for heating, cooling and lighting. In order to optimise the value of the electricity generated by the photovoltaic system, the energy demand in the house was reduced by using all available energy saving technologies but without impairing the comfort of the occupants.
The construction of the house took about eighteen months and was completed in March 1995. 11 years on Danny co-hosted his show with Sue and our pictures show what happened.
