| Heading: |
Solar Power: Reservoirs |
| Question ID: |
1760433 |
| UIN: |
27709 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-01-30 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5332 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Lincoln Jopp
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| Asking Member handle: |
LincolnJopp
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@LincolnJopp
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of floating solar panels on reservoirs. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-02-07 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4998 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Michael Shanks
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| Answering Member handle: |
mgshanks
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@mgshanks
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| Answer text: |
The Clean Power Action Plan calls for the rapid acceleration of solar deployment to 45-47 GW by 2030, which will require significant increases in all types of solar. The UK has already seen successful floating solar PV projects, such as the Queen Elizabet... |
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| Answering body ID: |
215 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero |
| Tweeted: |
true |