Ground-mounted Solar Panels: Alternatives Debate
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Peter Fortune
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Ground-mounted Solar Panels: Alternatives
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Lincoln Jopp
I am very grateful to the hon. Gentleman for making that point. I hope other Members will come forward with their own preferred alternatives to land-based systems, because there are others.
Peter Fortune (Bromley and Biggin Hill) (Con)
My hon. Friend is making a characteristically brilliant speech—the jokes get better each time we hear them. Does he agree that there are other types of provision? My area of interest is space-based solar power provision, which could provide the same sorts of solutions without taking up precious agricultural land.
Lincoln Jopp
As the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the shadow Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, my hon. Friend is only too well placed to talk about that. As his Whip, I can only say that his jokes get better too.