By Lancaster University senior research associate Fabio Carvalho and professor of energy and environmental sciences Alona Armstrong
If you were told solar farms could take up to 0.3% of the total land area in the UK by 2035, would you take up a banner and march to parliament in protest? It’s hard to imagine anyone feeling troubled by such a perceptibly small figure.
A pairing of Electricite de France’s renewables arm and China’s Jinko Solar is the lead bidder to build a solar farm larger than 4,200 soccer pitches that would supply power at what could be record-low prices.
HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, broke ground on the 4th phase of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park yesterday.
The site of one of the world’s worst nuclear disasters, Chernobyl has received a million dollar facelift as a solar energy complex in a bid to bring value to the abandoned region.