'Grossly unacceptable': Government slammed for 15-year wait times for solar connections

Cecilia Keating
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Environmental Audit Committee and solar industry urge Energy Secretary to tackle barriers hampering roll out of solar capacity in UK

MPs on the Environment Audit Committee (EAC) have warned a "dark cloud of delay" hangs over the government's ambition to increase solar energy generation capacity five-fold by 2035. In a letter written...

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