31 May 2012 - New research by the National Farmers' Union (NFU) and the bank NatWest has revealed that 30% of farmers across England and Wales will be involved in some form of renewable energy production, use or supply by the end of the summer.
According to the report published this month, by September around one in five farmers in England and Wales will be producing clean electricity, one in six will have installed solar PV and a further one in eight will be using or generating renewable energy.
The findings suggest agriculture will make a significant contribution to the UK target of producing 15% of our energy from renewable sources by 2020, as set by the EU Renewable Energy Directive.
More than 400 farmers were surveyed in a first-of-its-kind partnership between the two organisations. The analysis revealed that over half of those surveyed felt that gaining planning permission was the biggest barrier to renewable energy projects, with one in three seeing access to finance as a possible issue and one in four finding access to the right information problematic. read more>>>
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