The hon. Member for Mid Buckinghamshire (Greg Smith) raised a concern about solar threatening our ability to grow our own food in this country. I respectfully suggest that he checks out the recent research by Exeter University, which shows that we could increase the amount of renewable energy we generate in this country 13 times over using, I believe, less than 3% of the UK’s land, and none of the highest-grade agricultural land—
Making Britain a Clean Energy Superpower
Proceeding contribution from
Carla Denyer
(Green Party)
in the House of Commons on Friday, 26 July 2024.
It occurred during Debate on Making Britain a Clean Energy Superpower.
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
752 c1002 
Session
2024-25
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Subjects
Librarians' tools
Timestamp
2024-08-01 23:17:38 +0100
URI
http://hansard.intranet.data.parliament.uk/Commons/2024-07-26/24072630000091
In Indexing
http://indexing.parliament.uk/Content/Edit/1?uri=http://hansard.intranet.data.parliament.uk/Commons/2024-07-26/24072630000091
In Solr
https://search.parliament.uk/claw/solr/?id=http://hansard.intranet.data.parliament.uk/Commons/2024-07-26/24072630000091