Scottish Government’s commitment to boost solar energy welcomed by industry
A Scottish Government commitment to increase solar energy generation by 2030 has been welcomed by the industry.
Lorna Slater MSP, co-leader of the Scottish Green Party, announced at the party’s conference in Dunfermline that the Scottish Government has made the commitment.
She said: “Today I’m pleased to announce that the Scottish Government’s forthcoming Energy Strategy and Just Transition Plan will commit to a bold deployment ambition of at least four, but up to six, gigawatts of solar power by 2030. That’s 10 times our current solar generation capacity.
Well, they behave like lunatics. If you behave like a lunatic how is anyone to tell that you’re not one?
Josephine - Brat Farrar (1949)
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Scotland has masses of south-facing slopes suitable for solar power. And in summer it has lots of hours of daylight. Excellent
On the other hand it often has masses of clouds. Bad.
On the third hand if you put the panels on south-facing slopes that overlook water you'll also benefit from reflected sunlight. Excellent.
On the fourth hand if you put the panels on south-facing slopes that overlook snowfields you may benefit from reflected sunlight in winter. But the days are short. Bad.
All in all, summing up judiciously: mad berks.
Solar power? In Scotland? Derisive snort. Who thought that one up? The Monster Raving Looney Party? No, no, by comparison they're far too sensible.
It is difficult to see through the spin of power generation figures but scratch around and you find that:
https://electricityproduction.uk/in/scotland/
Scotland is mostly running on renewables, and that is mostly wind, and solar is a trivial amount. If solar were to be 10 times greater it would still be trivial.
So who benefits from the increase in solar?
Is this another master plan to drag us back to 1700? I can't believe that you're dissing the sainted Schottische Nationalsozialistische Partei . . .
A "Just Transition Plan"? Is that something to do with locking rapists up in women's jails?
You bet that the 'commitment is welcomed by the industry'!
Even more expensive money to be poured into just a few pockets!
Nothing will grow underneath these unrecyclable sheets, I wrote SHEETS, of polluting chemicals. So nothing will hold the soil. So the next unprecedented rain downpour, courtesy of Global Climate Boiling, will wash the soil to the bottom of the hill, blocking transport and rivers.
And, as well as rain and snow Scotland also has interesting hail.
What could possibly go wrong.
But the tourists will love it. Come to Bonnie Scatland and see the whirling Mercedes logos of doom and acres of some sort of shiny stuff.
dearieme - markets and sensible trials should sort out this kind of thing. Choose a location, set up test panels, calculate costs, look at the electricity market, available favourable locations and so on. Instead we have loons waving their arms.
Bill - I'd vote for the Monster Raving Looney Party knowing they aren't this daft.
DJ - that's the lunacy of it, given the renewables politics, wind is the obvious one, not solar. It seems to be more to do with totems than reality.
Jannie - it certainly looks like a master plan to drag us back to 1700. Maybe 1900 if we're good and eat our insects.
Sam - ha ha, I'm surprised they aren't more careful with the word.
Scrobs - yes, money drives it, money and useful idiots.
Doonhamer - I read a piece about a debacle in Germany where the backing sheets were made of polyamide which cracked and ruined the panels. Oh well, only another few billion euros down the pan.
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