Britain’s biggest
solar 'farms'
receive more
cash from their
'green' subsidies
than from selling
the electricity
they produce !
The nation’s
largest 'farm',
The Shotwick
Solar Park,
in Deeside,
North Wales,
got a £3.5million
subsidy, which was
pocketed by
owner Foresight
Solar Fund.
It generated electricity
worth less than that
-- £2.5million !
The total subsidy
provided to
all generators
of solar electricity
last year
is estimated
to be about
£1.2billion.
Treasury officials
have stopped
new subsidy deals,
but farms with
existing deals are
guaranteed generous
handouts until the end
of their contracts.
The Solar Trade
Association said:
‘Like all
new technologies
solar needed support
on the early days
to get off the ground.
… Today solar
doesn’t need any
significant subsidy
at all.’
