Industry could build solar equivalent of Hinkley in two years, firm tells PM
Solar power technology could deliver the same levels of electricity as the planned nuclear plant at Hinkley Point, at a similar cost and in just two years – rather than the decade it will take for the power station to come online.
In a letter to David Cameron, Mark Turner, operations director at solar power firm Lightsource Renewable Energy, says that an increased and immediate rollout of solar could help avoid the predicted power shortages that the regulator Ofgem expects the UK to suffer by 2015. This is when a number of coal-fired power stations are set to be retired.
A deal to build another nuclear power station at Hinkley Point in Somerset – the first new nuclear plant in the UK in 25 years – was confirmed on Monday. However, the plant is not expected to begin generating electricity until 2023, which Turner says doesn’t solve the problem of blackouts.
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