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Thursday, 30 April 2026

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Labour plans to blanket lakes with floating solar farms

Ed Miliband is preparing to blanket reservoirs and lakes with solar farms as part of Labour’s push towards net zero.

The Energy Secretary will launch a consultation to make it easier to build floating solar power plants, after a report that hailed their potential as a clean energy source.

Floating solar schemes use the same panels as land-based projects but are mounted on platforms floated in freshwater bodies such as reservoirs, lakes, quarry lakes and industrial ponds.


There is a hint of desperation about this, but also revenge against those who know Net Zero can't work and Ed Miliband is mad or bad and probably both.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Every loch in Scotland, every lake in Cumbria ... surely at last people will see that he needs to be sectioned?

decnine said...

Lakes need solar panels like fish need bicycles. Are the Greens up for this?

mikebravo said...

A consultation eh? I wonder what the outcome will be.
A great big feck off from the plebs which will be hailed as a resounding yes for more cash into the net zero fantasy.
Where is Michael Jackson's doctor when we most need him to treat Milliband?

A K Haart said...

Anon - yes, it's difficult to accept that he's sane enough to be allowed out unsupervised. His own room with rubber wallpaper can't be far off.

decnine - they probably are, although their interest in the environment seems to be waning slightly under Polanski.

A K Haart said...

Mike - that's it, whatever the outcome of a consultation it will be hailed as some kind of approval.