Wednesday 11 January at 14.15 – Committee Room 5 – Watch stay on parliamentlive.television
AGENDA:
The Environmental Audit Committee will maintain a one-off proof session exploring onshore photo voltaic power. The session provided members the prospect to ask consultants questions on the alternatives and limitations to increasing the deployment of photo voltaic expertise within the UK.
WATCH THE VIDEO HERE – 11TH JAN @2.15PM
The proof session consisted of two panels: the primary exploring the growth of photo voltaic expertise within the UK, and the second contemplating the land use and neighborhood impacts of photo voltaic farms. Members are prone to ask questions in regards to the Authorities’s targets on photo voltaic power, acquiring grid connections for photo voltaic farms, the potential contribution of residential and business photo voltaic installations, the impacts on biodiversity of photo voltaic farms and the results of opposition to neighborhood of photo voltaic farms.
The proof session follows the current publication of the Committee’s report, ‘Accelerating the transition from fossil fuels and securing power provides’, the place members highlighted the significance of harnessing the potential of low carbon power within the UK. Specifically, the Committee advisable that the Authorities’s Future Properties Requirements require builders to suit photo voltaic PV as commonplace the place doable.
Witnesses:
From 14.15:
• Chris Hewett, CEO, Photo voltaic Vitality UK
• Ian Rippin, CEO, Microgeneration Certification Scheme
• Professor Alastair Buckley, Professor of Natural Electronics, College of Sheffield
• Dr. Chris Chase, Chief Know-how Officer, Oxford PV
From 15:30:
• Dr Alona Armstrong, Senior Lecturer in Vitality and Environmental Sciences, Lancaster College
• Judicaelle Hammond, Director of Coverage and Recommendation, Nation Land and Enterprise Affiliation
• Paul Miner, Head of Planning and Coverage, CPRE The Countryside Charity
