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Technological innovations and climate change: onshore solar energy

Inquiry

The Environmental Audit Committee is launching a new inquiry into onshore solar energy technologies, part of the wider Technological Innovations and Climate Change inquiry. This inquiry will focus on both small-scale deployment of solar technology on residential and commercial properties, and large-scale solar farms. It will investigate the current barriers to expansion of these solar installations and the land-use risks associated with increasing the number of solar farms in the UK.  The Committee will also consider the security and sustainability of the supply chain for solar panels and energy storage technologies.

Read the call for evidence for more information about this inquiry.

This inquiry is no longer accepting evidence

The deadline for submissions was Thursday 1 December 2022.

Reports, special reports and government responses

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Correspondence

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Letter from the Secretary of State, Department for Energy Security & Net Zero, relating to the 'Technological innovations and climate change: onshore solar energy' inquiry, dated 17 May 2023
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Letter from the EAC Chair to the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, regarding 'Technological innovations and climate change: onshore solar power', dated 4 May 2023
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Oral evidence transcripts

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11 January 2023
Inquiry Technological innovations and climate change: onshore solar energy
Witnesses Dr Alona Armstrong (Senior Lecturer in Energy and Environmental Sciences at Lancaster University), Country Land and Business Association, and CPRE The Countryside Charity
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11 January 2023
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Witnesses Solar Energy UK, Microgeneration Certification Scheme, Professor Alastair Buckley (Professor of Organic Electronics at University of Sheffield), and Oxford PV
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Tony Orvis (Submitter at n/a) (OSE0073)
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Professor Alastair Buckley (Professor of Organic Electronics at Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield), Dan Travers (Director at Open Climate Fix), and Laura Murphy (Professor of Human Rights and Contemporary Slavery at Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice, Sheffield Hallam University) (OSE0074)
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