SNP and Greens to set target for solar revolution in government talks THE SNP and Greens have been urged to make a massive increase in solar power a key part of joint government talks, to complement Scotland’s wind power revolution. As Glasgow prepares to host the COP26 climate change conference in November, the solar industry said the country could increase its capacity almost 20-fold by 2030. Solar Energy Scotland said current electricity capacity of 372 megawatts could be raised to six gigawatts (6000 megawatts) if politicians adopted a “stretching but achievable” target. In a letter to Nicola Sturgeon and Scottish Green co-leaders Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater, the trade body said Scotland had already set a target for offshore wind potentially supplying 11GW by the end of the decade, and a similar ambitious goal should be set for solar.