Solar Power - 19th April 2016

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Solar Power.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2016-04-19/debates/16041926000016/SolarPower

12:04 Damian Hinds (Conservative)

I look forward to reading the hon. Lady’s report. The Treasury takes a balanced approach to making sure that we stay on target to meet our commitments. We are on target to meet our commitment of 15% of renewable energy by 2020, but we must do so in a cost-effective way, recognising that the subsidies to early stage technologies can only be paid for by taxpayers.

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12:04 Damian Hinds (Conservative)

Indeed. Were it only the case that the sun would always shine. Under Labour, we had the highest dependency on fossil fuels in the G8 and the lowest contribution from renewable energy of any major EU country. As I said earlier, the deployment of solar power has been a great success story since 2010.

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