Onshore Wind and Solar Generation Debate
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Jess Brown-Fuller
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Onshore Wind and Solar Generation
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Ben Obese-Jecty
My right hon. Friend makes an excellent point, with which I wholeheartedly agree. The Government have a target of building 1.5 million—sorry, that was downgraded in the spring statement to 1.3 million—new homes. It would be sensible for them to implement some sort of legislation that would mean that those 1.3 million new homes had solar panels on their roofs. I urge the Minister to ask what assessment has been done on how much energy could be generated were we to do that at full scale instead of building solar farms on our best rural heartlands.
Jess Brown-Fuller (Chichester) (LD)
Will the hon. Member support the private Member’s Bill introduced by my hon. Friend the Member for Cheltenham (Max Wilkinson), aptly named the sunshine Bill, which would make solar panels mandatory on the roof of all new homes?
Ben Obese-Jecty
I will leave my decision until we have a vote on that Bill, but I will look at it in more detail.