As well as being notoriously cloudy, Britain needs its electricity much more in winter than summer, but solar power works exactly the other way round, due to inevitable seasonal daylight hours variations. Everyone knows that of course, but current leaders insist on ignoring such realities in pursuit of their net zero climate fantasies. As well as the loss of good farmland, how long the national grid system can survive these policies without ever failing has become a serious question. The costs linked to avoiding blackouts are rising all the time.
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Last week, Ed Miliband approved One Earth, Britain’s second-largest solar farm, says the Telegraph (via Climate Dispatch).
Spread across the Nottinghamshire-Lincolnshire border, it will have 740 megawatts of capacity and could power 200,000 homes. It followed approval for two more enormous solar farms, Peartree Hill in East Yorkshire and Dean Moor in Cumbria.
Britain is now carpeting farmland with glass panels at a startling speed, in pursuit of very ambitious solar power goals. All of which sounds worthy, even sensible, until you remember one salient fact. [Talkshop comment – nothing ambitious, worthy or sensible at all there].
A World Bank study ranks Britain second-to-last in the world for practical solar potential (only Ireland is worse); we are relatively dark, cloudy, and northerly.
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