Neil Lindsay - Leaving the lights on: How solar energy is fundamental to empowering resilience and sustainability within the farming community

Neil Lindsay is managing director at BLC Energy, a renewable energy development company specialising in utility scale solar PV and co-located battery storage projects across the UK

Chris Brayford
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Neil Lindsay said encouraging energy generation in rural areas would be a monumental milestone for UK agriculture.
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Neil Lindsay said encouraging energy generation in rural areas would be a monumental milestone for UK agriculture.

While the rhetoric of sustainability from policymakers can sometimes feel like white noise, there is cause for some optimism as support has been promised from the highest echelons of Government for the...

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