{"id":410,"date":"2019-12-01T10:07:48","date_gmt":"2019-12-01T10:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/solafields.co.uk\/en\/?p=410"},"modified":"2019-12-03T22:12:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T22:12:06","slug":"solar-farms-now-viable-without-subsidy-or-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solafields.co.uk\/en\/2019\/12\/solar-farms-now-viable-without-subsidy-or-tariffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar farms now viable without subsidy or tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Solafields is expecting to commence construction of two of its solar farms on a subsidy-free basis early in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reduced solar module prices, reduced engineering costs and a reduced cost of finance have all enabled large scale solar to become viable, with no revenues other that the UK wholesale power price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The economics are very tight and solar farm leases now need to be 50 years long to give enough time to recover the capital cost of the installation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solafields is expecting to commence construction of two of its solar farms on a subsidy-free basis early in 2020. Reduced solar module prices, reduced engineering costs and a reduced cost of finance have all enabled large scale solar to become viable, with no revenues other that the UK wholesale power price. The economics are very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solafields.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/solafields.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/solafields.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solafields.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solafields.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/solafields.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":411,"href":"https:\/\/solafields.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions\/411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solafields.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solafields.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solafields.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}