Select Committee · Environmental Audit Committee

Technological innovations and climate change: onshore solar energy

Status: Closed Opened: 3 Nov 2022 Closed: 1 Nov 2023

The Environmental Audit Committee is launching a new inquiry into onshore solar energy technologies, part of the wider Technological Innovations and Climate Change inquiry. This inquiry will focus on both small-scale deployment of solar technology on residential and commercial properties, and large-scale solar farms. It will investigate the current barriers to expansion of these solar …

Oral evidence sessions

1 session
Date Witnesses
11 Jan 2023 Chris Hewett · Solar Energy UK, Dr Alona Armstrong · Lancaster University, Dr Chris Case · Oxford PV, Ian Rippin · Microgeneration Certification Scheme Service Company, Judicaelle Hammond · Country Land and Business Association, Paul Miner · CPRE The Countryside Charity, Professor Alastair Buckley · University of Sheffield View ↗

Correspondence

2 letters
DateDirectionTitle
31 May 2023 To cttee Letter from the Secretary of State, Department for Energy Security & Net Zero, …
4 May 2023 To cttee Letter from the EAC Chair to the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net…