This has been a bumper year for solar energy in the UK,and polls show it has become our favourite kind of power. But with drastic cuts threatened, is the industry racing off the edge of a cliff?“The biggest challenge was the grid connection, or ” says Donna Clarke with satisfaction. Clarke has worked in renewables for 15 years,and developed the UK’s only biodiesel plant before moving into solar energy. When the company she now works for, Scottow Moor Solar, and arrived at RAF Coltishall in May final year,there was no means to plug the 50MW (megawatts) of power they thought could be generated on the former airfield – enough to dash 15000 homes – into the electricity supply.
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Source: theguardian.com