We are delighted to announce that Solar Habitat 2024 is now out. This report collates the results of monitoring data throughout 2023.
Solar Energy UK Lancaster University Wychwood Biodiversity

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🐝 On the blog: How are pollinators affected by increasing #solar parks? How can we manage for both?

Authors Hollie Blaydes & Alona Armstrong describe their latest research on The Applied Ecologist:
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UK solar parks can provide vital resources for the nation's declining bees and butterflies, according to new research by led by Hollie Blaydes Lancaster Environment Centre
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☀🔋 Both on-site resources & landscape characteristics impact insect #pollinators at #solar parks – management should focus on maximising floral resources within these parks to best support pollinator groups @AlonaArmstrong

Find out more: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

A great week at #BES2023 in Belfast - only a small room for our thematic session this morning! 🙃

Looking forward to speaking at #BES2023 in a couple of weeks about predicting bumble bee density in solar parks under future land use change ⬇️

An illustration for Hollie Blaydes, a researcher at Lancaster University, about the potential for solar parks to provide refuge for pollinators in agricultural landscapes.

Later we created an animation: mairperkins.co.uk/animations/env…

#design #illustration #sciart #scicomms

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A bit late to the party, but glad to see this released! 🎊

We brought together monitoring data from solar parks across the UK to try to better understand what’s going on with biodiversity 🌞

With just a week to go to #EGU23 EGU, check our session's oral block schedule on Wed 26th Apr, featuring the Energy Environment Interactions's Hollie Blaydes & Lucy Treasure.

Have a look at the full programe at meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU23/session/…... 1/2

Our standardised protocol to assess natural capital and #ecosystem services in #solarenergy sites is out Applied Ecol. Resources|Ecol. Solutions & Evidence !

Wide-ranging collaboration between Lancaster Environment Centre, Energy Environment Interactions, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Solar Energy UK, Clarkson and Woods & Wychwood Biodiversity!

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The State of UK’s Butterflies 2022 report has been released today and it's not good news

80% of butterflies in the UK have declined since the 1970s 🦋📉

We need urgent action to turn things around. Act Now 👉 butrfli.es/40juRuZ

#StateOfButterflies #SaveButterflies

Solar farms have long been recognised as a way to combat climate change and biodiversity loss. But did you know that they can also play a role in addressing food security?

👩🏻‍💻 Hollie Blaydes writes about it on our latest blog – Check it out! #SolarEnergy
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Pausing my PhD for a couple of months to try something new! ⬇️

The Energy Environment Interactions Team are joining Kathryn G. Logan, PhD, Grace C Wu and Quentin Lambert at #EGU23 to discuss the low carbon energy transition and its environmental implications👇.

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Deadline for financial support is 1st December. Apply!!!

Had a great couple of days at Solar & Storage Live with the Energy Environment Interactions team, Clarkson and Woods and Wychwood Biodiversity - lots of industry interest in our work 🤩 #solarstoragelive