Solar industry body hits back at council opposition
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BBC Solar Energy UK says farmland solar is crucial
The trade body for the UK's solar power industry says Derbyshire County Council's opposition to solar farms on agricultural land is based on ideas which sometimes "are at a tangent to reality". Councillors voted overwhelmingly this month to oppose solar projects on farmland across Derbyshire calling them "Chinese-manufactured eco deserts".
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