During those bitterly cold winter nights, why not heat your home with solar power?

Renewable heat - a new approach by the UK government « Robert Kyriakides’s Weblog

I suspect that solar thermal will provide a much greater contribution to meeting the renewables target than the government imagines. I think that the various problems is growing energy from food and from biomass, which has unintended consequences on food prices and air quality will become more apparent as we learn more about them. This will create greater emphasis on renewable heat from solar panels, which will have to bear an increasing large share of the UK’s renewable energy.