{"id":6573,"date":"2013-10-11T18:26:23","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T17:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=6573"},"modified":"2013-10-11T18:26:23","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T17:26:23","slug":"minister-calls-for-sensitive-solar-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=6573","title":{"rendered":"Minister calls for &#8216;sensitive&#8217; solar projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Sensitively-sited solar photovoltaic energy projects will be central to the growth of renewables in Britain, Energy and Climate Change Minister Greg Barker has insisted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>He said: \u2018The Coalition is committed to delivering the clean and reliable energy supplies that the country needs, at the lowest possible cost to consumers.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Solar PV can play a central role in meeting this challenge. It\u2019s a genuinely exciting energy technology which has already seen rapid growth and enjoys strong public support. I want this growth to continue but new solar installations must be sensitive to public opinion and mindful of wider environmental and visual impacts.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>His comments came as the Department of Energy and Climate Change published the department\u2019s first-ever solar PV \u2018road map\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Search Planning Portal<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planningportal.gov.uk\/general\/news\/stories\/2013\/october13\/101013\/101013_6\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sensitively-sited solar photovoltaic energy projects will be central to the growth of renewables in Britain, Energy and Climate Change Minister Greg Barker has insisted. He said: \u2018The Coalition is committed to delivering the clean and reliable energy supplies that the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=6573\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6574,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6573\/revisions\/6574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}