Farmers in Dorset are hoping to cash-in on a new type of crop; money from the sun. The feed in tariffs announced earlier this year guarantee a payment for 25 years for Solar PV panels of up to 41.3p for every kWh produced, and another 3p for electricity fed back to the grid which could harvest £1,500 an acre for the Solar farms.
Spokesman for North Dorset District Council Peter Hyde said "the planning department had received a number of enquiries about the matter."
“Most are from agents wanting to know if they need environmental impact assessments. We have not received any applications, but anticipate receiving some in the coming months,”
Solar farms are commonplace in other European countries like Spain and Italy but there's no reason why British farmers can't take advantage of the energy from the sun and with the new FIT incentives it would appear there's never been a better time.
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