Fossil fuels and their environmental impact continue to have devastating effects on local, national and global communities. It is up to the people in power to continue to promote green energy production and usage, and solar power is increasingly cheap to install and efficient to collect.

One major benefit of solar power is that it does not require development of previously undeveloped land: solar panels can be installed on roofs of buildings without major cost or disruption. Hence I believe that we should utilise the hundreds of square kilometres of bare roofs across the UK, especially of factories, warehouses and other large buildings.

Therefore I would suggest that the government looks into the use of spare roof space and solar energy as to further improve efforts to reach their target of 15% renewable energy by 2020.