Your website is excellent and comes just at the right time. I worked for 10 years in wind farm development. Whereas I still very much endorse wind power I see in solar a fantastic planning opportunity to more successfully integrate renewables into the UK landscape. It is the most popular renewables technology and yet the Coalation sees this as a problem rather than as an opportunity. Solar at all scales is democratic and ‘low profile’ in every respect. A sensitively sited solar farm can be screened behind a hedge. Intensive, yet lower grade agricultural land can be fenced in and tranformed into a solar powered nature reserve over 25 years, with sheep grazing or wild flower meadow management between the panels. A single-habitat grassed field can be transformed into a tri-habitat biodiverse wild-life-friendly area of wet-shade, dry-shade and wet-sunny microclimates. The tedchnology is accessable and familiar. Lets keep up the pressure and focus on 2012/2013 when solar is due to come of age (grid parity in Germany et al).
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Your website is excellent and comes just at the right time. I worked for 10 years in wind farm development. Whereas I still very much endorse wind power I see in solar a fantastic planning opportunity to more successfully integrate renewables into the UK landscape. It is the most popular renewables technology and yet the Coalation sees this as a problem rather than as an opportunity. Solar at all scales is democratic and ‘low profile’ in every respect. A sensitively sited solar farm can be screened behind a hedge. Intensive, yet lower grade agricultural land can be fenced in and tranformed into a solar powered nature reserve over 25 years, with sheep grazing or wild flower meadow management between the panels. A single-habitat grassed field can be transformed into a tri-habitat biodiverse wild-life-friendly area of wet-shade, dry-shade and wet-sunny microclimates. The tedchnology is accessable and familiar. Lets keep up the pressure and focus on 2012/2013 when solar is due to come of age (grid parity in Germany et al).