Reform party: just a front for fossil fuel lobbyists

[Brigadier]

Im with you on rooftop PV, but Rooftop power isn't enough and will never be enough. That JLR plant is a good example, they out in a huge array and it's only a small fraction of their power drawn. They need more.

And ground mounted PV is absurdly cheap power. Rooftop PV is something like 2-3x more expensive per W.

A little is better than nowt and, for the average domestic consumer, roof-sited PV would be ample for a lot of their use.

The issue is still cost though.
Many skint themselves for "the house of my dreams", so they'll have no chance of buying PV too.
And renting your roof out to a PV provider is fraught with issues IIRC, especially if and when you come to sell the house.

 

[noseall]

our country needs farm land for farms, or houses etc.

I suppose when a whopping 6% of your land is squandered on development, it's a struggle.

 

[mitch66]

Buildings are more expensive and smaller.

The largest building by area in the UK is apparently a jaguar manufacturing plant at 85 acres.

If that's the Springwell solar farm it will be covering 3,000 acres. You'll never be able to build PV powerplants by picking a building and then slapping PV on it, the small scale and higher installation cost, plus legal concerns make it uncompetitive.

Now should the JLR plant put panels on its roof? Absolutely. In fact they already have. Roughly 8MW of panels and it's only a small fraction of what the factory needs. It is economical for them even on such a small scale as they save on the Industrial rate electricity rather than earn the market rate supply.

JLR to install 18,000 PV panels on flagship plant

Automotive manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has announced that it will install a solar PV system at its Halewood manufacturing plant.

www.solarpowerportal.co.uk

All buildings should have PV on them now.

Pointless JLR putting panels on anywhere. The timing chain will snap after 10 minutes and it'll be write off LOL.

 

[IT Minion]

Pointless JLR putting panels on anywhere. The timing chain will snap after 10 minutes and it'll be write off LOL.

Even they can't mess up solid state?

 

[Odds]

- or a front for something much more sinister...

Up to 12 newly elected Reform UK councillors are facing allegations of sharing social media content ranging from support for the far right to explicitly Islamophobic comments.

The councillors accused of retweeting Britain First content include Paul Harrison, who was elected to Leicestershire county council. He retweeted and said “yes” to a question posed on X by Britain First’s chair who asked if followers supported mass deportations and posted an AI-generated picture of Muslim men with Pakistani flags. Russell Cherry, elected as a councillor in Thurrock, allegedly retweeted Paul Golding, who is Britain First’s leader and has a conviction for religiously aggravated harassment. Ivan Dabbs, a Reform councillor in West Northamptonshire, also allegedly shared a Britain First tweet and material by Golding calling for a street demonstration.

Hope Not Hate uncovered Reform candidates – some now elected – who posted anti-Muslim hate, pushed far-right conspiracies including calling the climate crisis a “globalist hysterical climate hoax”, praising extremists such as Tommy Robinson and sharing content from David Irving, the UK’s best known Holocaust denier.

Reform has been approached for comment. @ the Guardian

 

[IT Minion]

Reform councillors turn out to be racist arseholes!? What a shocking and utterly predictable occurrence.

 

[Notch7]

Reform candidates – some now elected – who posted anti-Muslim hate, pushed far-right conspiracies including calling the climate crisis a “globalist hysterical climate hoax”, praising extremists such as Tommy Robinson

But those are the reasons Reform party supporters on here are attracted to Reform.

 

[mitch66]

Even they can't mess up solid state?

Tell my wife's E Pace entertainment system that lol