Written Question·Department for Energy Security and Net Zero·UIN 8848

Solar Power: Rural Areas

Tabled: 14 October 2024
Answered: 22 October 2024

Question

Layla Moran

Liberal DemocratOxford West and Abingdon

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that rural communities benefit from hosting ground-mounted solar farm infrastructure on agricultural land.

Answer

Michael Shanks
The Government is committed to ensuring that where communities host clean energy infrastructure, such as solar farms, they directly benefit from it. The relaunched Solar Taskforce, which will set out how Government and industry can radically increase the ...

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