{"id":2133,"date":"2026-06-24T11:35:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T03:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.rungobag.cn\/index.php\/2026\/06\/24\/show-hn-helios-what-plug-in-solar-could-generate-for-any-address-in-britain-2\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T11:35:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T03:35:29","slug":"show-hn-helios-what-plug-in-solar-could-generate-for-any-address-in-britain-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.rungobag.cn\/index.php\/2026\/06\/24\/show-hn-helios-what-plug-in-solar-could-generate-for-any-address-in-britain-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Show HN: Helios \u2013 what plug-in solar could generate for any address in Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plug-in solar panels (no electrician needed) have just become legal in the UK and will go on sale soon. Helios estimates how much electricity a typical installation could generate at a given address and what that&#8217;s worth against your tariff.It uses UK government LIDAR data to reflect the actual skyline, so it knows whether there&#8217;s a building or a hill blocking the sun.Caveats: &#8211; Outside LIDAR coverage (most of Scotland and Wales) it falls back to a synthetic horizon (less accurate). &#8211; Trees and &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helios.southlondonscientific.com\/\">\u67e5\u770b\u539f\u6587 \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><small>\u6765\u6e90\uff1aHacker News \u00b7 RSS \u91c7\u96c6<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plug-in solar panels (no electrician needed) have just  [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.rungobag.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.rungobag.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.rungobag.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.rungobag.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.rungobag.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.rungobag.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.rungobag.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.rungobag.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.rungobag.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}