ANALYSIS: The UK learns to love PV

UK energy minister Greg Barker

Makers or takers, strivers or skivers. The linguistic shorthand may vary by country, but the debate over whether you are putting in more than you drain out remains the same.

And once and for all, PV seems to have come down on the right side of the divide as far as the UK government is concerned.

This reputational upgrade boils down to three factors, and all of them bode well.

First, the government now grasps the critical contribution PV will make towards the country’s 2020 renewables target – a target so steep that serious discussions are underway regarding the subsea importation of green electricity from Ireland.

One of the biggest howlers of recent UK energy policymaking was Whitehall’s failure to include solar as Log in to read complete article.

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