Households encouraged to install solar energy panels

CORK’S local authority is to encourage the city’s 40,000 householders to consider installing solar energy panels on their roofs.

Households encouraged to install solar energy panels

The city council plans to write to all its customers in the coming weeks to explain new planning laws which allow people erect certain types of solar panels without planning permission.

City manager Joe Gavin agreed to outline the planning exemption following a request from Fianna Fáil councillor Tim Brosnan.

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