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• Power to society: think again on the FIT review

  Author Name: Mark Shorrock Farmers, landowners and hundreds of communities across the country will be the biggest losers following the Coalition Government’s threatened backtracking over funding for community scale solar energy schemes. That’s... Posted Feb 22 2011, 09:30 AM by Blog posts Select Tags... SaveCancel Filed under: Solar, footprinting, resources, solar pv, big society [Edit Tags]

• Changes fit for AD success

  Author Name: Mark Newton Read More... Posted Feb 16 2011, 09:05 AM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Anaerobic Digestion, Horticulture, Potatoes, Solar, Livestock, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, FiTs, solar pv [Edit Tags]

• Over 80% of farms want solar PV on their roofs by 2013

  Author Name: Madeleine Lewis A recent survey has found that 80% of farmers in the UK want to have solar photovoltaics on their roofs within the next three years. The results prove farmers’ interest in generating clean electricity has soared following... Posted Dec 07 2010, 12:47 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Solar, FiTs, solar pv, renewable energy [Edit Tags]

• Farmers flock to Glastonbury to see new solar barn

  Author Name: Chris Sampson I always thought that if I ever made the journey to Glastonbury it would be to hear U2 or Oasis perform to a crowd of thousands: how wrong I would be! Hundreds of farmers are queuing up to see Glastonbury’s new solar barn... Posted Nov 17 2010, 12:00 AM by Blog posts Filed under: Solar, solar pv, renewable energy, feed-in tariff [Edit Tags]

• My “Big Society” Solar PV system

  Author Name: Ivan Moss Struggling to raise the funds to join in the latest craze in farming – sticking solar panels up on your roof, barn or even in your fields? Well join the club! Even with the Feed-in Tariffs (FITs), Solar PV is still a pretty... Posted Nov 10 2010, 03:59 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Horticulture, Potatoes, Solar, Livestock, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, FiTs, solar pv, big society [Edit Tags]

• Solar pv really does make for a brighter balance sheet...

  Author Name: Andrew Ingram The other week I had the unique experience of hosting a Farming Future event and it turns out it was one the most successful to date. 100 farmers from the neighbouring countryside gathered in my barn to hear about the latest... Posted Nov 01 2010, 06:45 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Solar, solar pv, renewable energy [Edit Tags]

• Solar parks - some pointers before you get started

  Author Name: Sonya Bedford In the past few months I’ve been inundated with requests to help with heads of terms with developers looking to create a “solar park” on land, particularly in Devon, Cornwall and Somerset. Below are a few pointers... Posted Oct 05 2010, 11:17 AM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Horticulture, Potatoes, Solar, Livestock, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, solar pv, developers, solar park [Edit Tags]