If only there was a flat surface on the top of almost every building that these panels could be affixed to. Maybe even a subsidy or two to cover most of the cost.
> Land may be seized
> Homeowners and farmers are being threatened with having their land effectively confiscated
We all know what compulsory purchase/acquisition is, no need to make it sound so nefarious, landowners will get money, whether it’ll be a fair price is admittedly always up for debate, but it’s not a seizure or confiscation
I thought the current government was keen on cutting “all the green crap”?
Or is this just the Telegraph doing it’s usual nonsense to scare it’s readers?
Would be nice if we had ever gotten to vote on whether we even wanted the WEFs net zero plan in the first place.
Meanwhile, China will be opening some new coal power plants negating anything we do to cut carbon.
Isn’t this what Liz Truss was against? Rolling out solar panels on fields?
From the article I don’t see any evidence that Sunnica would actually have any authority or route to get a compulsory purchase – unless I missed it, in which case hands up. Sounds a bit like a Telegraph scare atory
Why can’t they use the freeway road sides and the roof tops of government owned buildings and the land along side railway lines
Not to mention that with some slight changes it is possible to farm and solar farm on the same land.
It is always all or nothing it seems rather than a mix of both which would be far more acceptable to farmers than having all of their land seized
Are people still saying the great reset is a conspiracy theory?
Why not install them along the motorways? Plenty of unused space there and they won’t be an eyesore.
Nice scare story telegraph
Not it won’t be seized, the rest of the world manages just fine to have large solar farms without seizing land
Seizing farm land would be mental for a country that can only produce enough food to feed 50% of the current population
We also need to force companies to add Solar all over their roofs. Like warehouses and supermarkets. Big buildings, large roofs, lots of solar panels. Lots more off shore wind farms.
Solar panels on every roof of every house in the country too. I wonder how cheap our energy would be then
I’m visiting from the states for a few weeks, and have been very surprised at the lack of solar on roofs in the UK. We’re seeing it adopted in the US in quite a few places, especially large warehouses and plants (with large roof areas). They’re usually wired to the grid and don’t require long transit (with power loss).
Next to that, we’re installing in places that aren’t good for other uses such as deserts and parking lots.
Viable crop land is the last place we would install them. We already have debates about crop land.
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If only there was a flat surface on the top of almost every building that these panels could be affixed to. Maybe even a subsidy or two to cover most of the cost.
> Land may be seized
> Homeowners and farmers are being threatened with having their land effectively confiscated
We all know what compulsory purchase/acquisition is, no need to make it sound so nefarious, landowners will get money, whether it’ll be a fair price is admittedly always up for debate, but it’s not a seizure or confiscation
I thought the current government was keen on cutting “all the green crap”?
Or is this just the Telegraph doing it’s usual nonsense to scare it’s readers?
Would be nice if we had ever gotten to vote on whether we even wanted the WEFs net zero plan in the first place.
Meanwhile, China will be opening some new coal power plants negating anything we do to cut carbon.
Isn’t this what Liz Truss was against? Rolling out solar panels on fields?
From the article I don’t see any evidence that Sunnica would actually have any authority or route to get a compulsory purchase – unless I missed it, in which case hands up. Sounds a bit like a Telegraph scare atory
Why can’t they use the freeway road sides and the roof tops of government owned buildings and the land along side railway lines
Not to mention that with some slight changes it is possible to farm and solar farm on the same land.
It is always all or nothing it seems rather than a mix of both which would be far more acceptable to farmers than having all of their land seized
Are people still saying the great reset is a conspiracy theory?
Why not install them along the motorways? Plenty of unused space there and they won’t be an eyesore.
Nice scare story telegraph
Not it won’t be seized, the rest of the world manages just fine to have large solar farms without seizing land
Seizing farm land would be mental for a country that can only produce enough food to feed 50% of the current population
We also need to force companies to add Solar all over their roofs. Like warehouses and supermarkets. Big buildings, large roofs, lots of solar panels. Lots more off shore wind farms.
Solar panels on every roof of every house in the country too. I wonder how cheap our energy would be then
I’m visiting from the states for a few weeks, and have been very surprised at the lack of solar on roofs in the UK. We’re seeing it adopted in the US in quite a few places, especially large warehouses and plants (with large roof areas). They’re usually wired to the grid and don’t require long transit (with power loss).
Next to that, we’re installing in places that aren’t good for other uses such as deserts and parking lots.
Viable crop land is the last place we would install them. We already have debates about crop land.
Are there reasons why the UK doesn’t do similar?