Farm Gate: Tapping into wind and solar

ffinlo Costain investigates how farmers can earn money by stacking renewable electricity generation with other farming activity. The programme focusses primarily on wind and solar, but also touches on anaerobic digestion – and we discuss options for on-farm use and export as well as direct wire relationships.

Featuring:

• Louise Daniels, Head of External Affairs for Thrive Renewables
• Roger Stones, Senior Energy Consultant for NFU Energy
• Harvie Agnew, Policy Analyst at Solar Energy UK
• Nick Spicer, Chief Executive at YourEco
• Jon Fish, Devon farmer and Nature Friendly Farming Network Farming Champion

Farm Gate’s Filling the Funding Gap series is sponsored by Barclays, Environment Bank, Forest Carbon, Howdens Insurance, Regenerate and Saffery. Farm Gate is part of 8point9.com – the land use news channel.

Further reading from Solar Energy UK:

• Farming Sustainably Report
• Solar Habitat 2024: Ecological Trends on Solar Farms in the UK