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We desperately need to stop burning gas and wood to generate electricity. Solar panels on buildings and solar farms on fields are both essential. Agrivoltaics combines solar farms with food production, but even if it’s just a solar farm it’s better to have 0.6% of our land impacted by solar farms than 100% of our land impacted by extreme weather caused by the climate crisis. Currently solar farms occupy less than 0.1% of the UK’s land. To meet the government’s net zero target, the Climate Change Committee estimates that we will need 70GW of solar by 2035 and 90GW by 2050. That would mean solar farms would at most account for approximately 0.6% of UK land – less than the amount currently occupied by golf courses. The biggest threat to our food security is climate breakdown, not solar farms. The UK Government Food Security Report, published in 2024, says: “The number of undernourished people around the world is increasing. Climate change, nature loss and water insecurity pose significant risks to the ability of global food production to meet demand over the longer term.” Once we’ve built the solar farms that we need we’ll still have 99.4% of land left for farming. https://solarenergyuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/FactSheet-Solar-Farms-and-Agricultural-Land-2024.pdf
We desperately need to stop burning gas and wood to generate electricity. Solar panels on buildings and solar farms on fields are both essential. Agrivoltaics combines solar farms with food production, but even if it’s just a solar farm it’s better to have 0.6% of our land impacted by solar farms than 100% of our land impacted by extreme weather caused by the climate crisis. Currently solar farms occupy less than 0.1% of the UK’s land. To meet the government’s net zero target, the Climate Change Committee estimates that we will need 70GW of solar by 2035 and 90GW by 2050. That would mean solar farms would at most account for approximately 0.6% of UK land – less than the amount currently occupied by golf courses. The biggest threat to our food security is climate breakdown, not solar farms. The UK Government Food Security Report, published in 2024, says: “The number of undernourished people around the world is increasing. Climate change, nature loss and water insecurity pose significant risks to the ability of global food production to meet demand over the longer term.” Once we’ve built the solar farms that we need we’ll still have 99.4% of land left for farming. https://solarenergyuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/FactSheet-Solar-Farms-and-Agricultural-Land-2024.pdf