These are a variety of resources that you might find useful, click on the images or text links to look at them. Although they are written from the perspective different faith groups most of them contain information that will be valuable to anyone.

The Church of England

The Church of England has several web-pages devoted to renewable energy including a map of renewable energy projects and a library of case studies (type “solar panels” into the text search if this is all you are interested in). There are two particularly useful documents:

A Brief Guide to Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Panels is a general introduction to solar panels on church buildings which anyone will find useful.

A Brief Guide to Solar Panels and Faculty is covers some of the same material as the previous guide but includes more detail on the process for gaining approval within the Church of England (but including some advice which may be useful to anyone who needs to apply for planning permission.

The Green Mosques Initiative 

The Green Mosques Initiative includes an interesting overview of the benefits of the solar panels installed on Glasgow Central Mosque in prepartion for the CoP 26 meeting in 2022.

Faith Schools

If you are associated with a faith school, you might want to consider installing panels on the school, which will generally consume more electricity when the sun is shining than your faith building. Greater Manchester Combined Authority have recently published comprehensive guidance for schools wishing to install solar panels (although it is primarily written for schools managed by local authorities).

More General Energy Efficiency

This guide to reducing the carbon footprint of places of worship has just been produced by the Diocese of Salford in collaboration with the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of Manchester.

The Methodist Church has a useful set of pages called Get your church down to net zero. Not so much on solar panels here but a useful guide to other things that are worth sorting out.

Local links

The Catholic Diocese of Salford has web-pages on the environment generally and the Laudato Si’ Centre.

The Anglican Diocese of Manchester has web pages describing how it has become an eco-diocese.

The Manchester and Stockport District of the Methodist Church has pages devoted to the Environment and Climate Change.