Responding to the CCC report, Chief Executive of the UK's Solar Trade Association, Chris Hewett said: “We welcome the Committee’s recognition of the valuable contribution that onshore renewables can make to a green recovery; driving decarbonisation, deploying high quality jobs, and delivering significant economic growth.”
He went on to say: “The Committee rightly points out that other forms of generation are more carbon intensive and expensive too. If we are to emerge from this crisis with a renewed economy that is geared towards net zero, the UK needs to rapidly shift to low cost, reliable, and job-intensive technologies like solar.”
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STA welcomes milestone for UK solar
Last week the STA announced it was calling for the Government to commit to a target of 40GW of solar capacity by 2030, and has published a new policy paper which outlines how this can be achieved, and contribute to the green recovery. (mfo)
