Member

Proposed new paragraph (b) would help to provide the answer to where we should put panels instead. I and others question why we need to be putting solar panels at ground level at all. At Second Reading, the scope to put panels on our existing transport infrastructure was highlighted. It was pointed out that France have already mandated for installing solar panels on car parks. What about bus garages, train depots, railway stations, state schools and prisons? The Minister failed to respond to my suggestion that the Government could also mandate for them to be retrofitted to government buildings. What about incentivising owners to have them fitted on commercial and industrial buildings, as well as insisting that they go on new builds? If all these actions were put in place, I wonder if it would exceed what current aims hope to achieve and not only generate clean energy but reduce grid pressure and improve our energy infrastructure resilience against disruption while preserving maximum options regarding food production.