The UK Government’s Plan to Boost Solar Power

“The fact that it can be deployed rapidly in so many ways from household rooftops, to warehouses, to reservoirs and large-scale solar farms, is the key ingredient to this potential.”

Solar supply chains

Solar supply chains can be complex and global, with polysilicon needed for the manufacturing of solar panels. 

The report says that the government is determined to “eradicate the abhorrent practice of modern slavery and its commitment to ensuring that supply chains are free from the use of forced labour, including on members of Uyghur and other minorities in Xinjiang involved in the mining of polysilicon used in the manufacture of solar panels”.

Measures are set to be added to the Great British Energy Bill to ensure slavery and human trafficking do not take place in its business or supply chains. 

The government also aims to empower contracting authorities to exclude suppliers from government contracts who have committed labour market misconduct or environmental offences. 

“While the UK is unlikely to be able to compete in the existing global market for conventional solar panels, there is scope to grow industries producing balance of system components,” the report says.

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