Solar Power - 24th March 2011

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

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2011-03-24/debates/11032467000025/SolarPower

10:34 The Minister of State, Department of Energy and Climate Change (Gregory Barker)

Analysis undertaken by the Department for Energy and Climate Change in February 2010 estimated that the feed-in tariff scheme would lead to the deployment of about 700,000 domestic solar photovoltaic installations by 2020. In the light of the reforms to the schemes and the falling costs, I believe that we can do significantly better than that.

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10:37 Dan Rogerson (North Cornwall) (LD)

Will my hon. Friend consider the letter has been sent to the Secretary of State from the Wadebridge Renewable Energy Network—the WREN group—in my constituency about community-based projects that might be bigger than the new threshold?

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10:37 Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore) (Lab)

The Minister has single-handedly destroyed the confidence of the solar sector and the wider renewables sector at a stroke, and personally shredded the Government’s green credentials. The Renewable Energy Association says that the industry has been “strangled at birth”. Sharp’s in Wrexham states that this was

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10:39 Huw Irranca-Davies

Those are the words of the Minister of State, Department of Energy and Climate Change, the hon. Member for Wealden (Charles Hendry), then the shadow Minister. Why is he wrong on this as well, and why is the Minister of State the fount of all knowledge?

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