🌱☀️ Biosolar Roof in Full Bloom! ☀️🌱
This project is a brilliant example of how functional sustainability can also be beautiful, delivering stormwater management, biodiversity support, edge protection and solar power all in one.
Another forward-thinking green infrastructure solution!



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Echium vulgare has violet-blue trumpet flowers, produced on erect spotty (viper-like) stems May to Sept. The deep-tubed nectar-rich flowers are popular with longer tongued bees, butterflies and moths.
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Kidney vetch is a perennial with yellow flowers. Often prostrate. Likes well-drain substrates, so suits biosolar roofs. Popular with pollinators e.g. Wool carder bee; Small Blue Butterfly. Check out The Biosolar Plant Guide: biosolar-roofs.com/plants-for-b... #biosolar #biosolarroofs #biodiversity

Biosolar-Roofs.com offers a comprehensive FAQ / Q&A to help educate people about bisolar is and its benefits.
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Let us know if we should include any other biosolar topics.
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Silene dioica a.k.a. Red Campion
Being a woodland edge plant, Red Campion, thrives between the solar panels. Flowers April to September. Loved by long-tongued bumble-bees and hoverflies, and many moths.
Guide: biosolar-roofs.com/plants-for-b...
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Green roofs reduce city heat, insulate buildings, store rainwater, and give pollinators a home. They can reduce air con use by 𝟐𝟓% and 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐞 the life of a roof. These roofs can also absorb noise, carbon, and pollution. Pretty incredible.

Just one month until World Green Roof Day on 6th June #wgrd2025!

Work has commenced on our first green roof research installation thanks to a collaboration between OU academics and a local Living Roof contractor.

The project represents a significant stride towards sustainable urban development!

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I find the Dutch to be very thoughtful about the aesthetics and nature in public spaces. This is a bus stop in Enschede. The bus stop has rows of plants and a living roof.

We are excited to launch Biosolar-roofs.com. Check out: biosolar-roofs.com The world’s first website dedicated to roofs that combine living roofs and solar power. Your go-to resource for best practice, guidance, research and insights. #biosolar #biosolarroofs #livingroofs #biodiversity

We are looking for a new member of our maintenance team in London looking after green walls and green roofs. If you know of anyone with some horticultural knowledge and loves plants and can tolerate people please get in touch.

🌿☀️ The Green Roof Organisation (GRO) has released Best Practice Guidelines for Biosolar roofs 📖🏡. These cover design, wind uplift calculations 🌬️, panel height ⚡, and maintenance 🛠️—helping standardise installations for better energy efficiency & biodiversity 🐝🌍. #Sustainability tinyurl.com/3y37v8uy

🌱☀️ A biosolar roof combines greenery with solar panels

🌿 Boost biodiversity, create habitats🐝.
🌧️ Absorb rainwater
🌡️ Insulate buildings
☀️ Enhance solar panel efficiency

Eco-friendly, cost-effective, and planet-positive what’s not to love? 💚 #GreenRoof #Sustainability #Biosolar

Green Walls growing from the ground up provide summer shading, winter sun and cost a fraction of systems mounted into the facade of a building. It can be called sustainable efficiency. #GreenWall #plants #sustainable #greenrooftechnolofy #commonsense

Wind and solar saved the EU €59 BILLION in fossil fuel imports over the last five years 💶

Without the new 🌪️ and ☀️ added since 2019, the EU would have needed to burn an extra 92 billion cubic metres of fossil gas and 55 million tonnes of coal.

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