Extract from Wales Assembly: Plaid Cymru debate on establishing a publicly owned energy company - June 6t
Thursday, 7 June 2018 08:04
Bethan Sayed AM:...A national energy company could properly invest
in solar energy. Research for the Solar Trade Association in 2014
showed that, on a UK level, bold ambition for both large-scale
domestic and commercial rooftop solar could support an average of
nearly 50,000 jobs a year between 2014 and 2030. Now, that was
2014. Costs are coming down as technology advances and energy
production potential increases, but we are missing the boat and not
keeping pace with other...Request free
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Bethan Sayed AM:...A
national energy company could properly invest in solar energy.
Research for the Solar Trade Association in 2014 showed that, on
a UK level, bold ambition for both large-scale domestic and
commercial rooftop solar could support an average of nearly
50,000 jobs a year between 2014 and 2030. Now, that was 2014.
Costs are coming down as technology advances and energy
production potential increases, but we are missing the boat and
not keeping pace with other countries. In Germany, again, about
20,000 households are already part of an initiative that connects
homes that independently produce energy. A virtual network
allows them to buy and sell excess energy to each other at a
reduced cost. There are other micro-grids developing
elsewhere, such as in Brooklyn in the United States...
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