Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: Frustrating battery issue takes shine off solar grant

If the government really wants to help farmers and decarbonise our energy use, they need to loosen the rules around battery storage

Solar panels on a farm shed

Hannah Quinn-Mulligan

There is nothing quite like a meeting with your accountant to wake you up. I emerged from my meeting feeling like I’d been dunked in an ice bath and submerged for several minutes.

The only plus side was a review of the year we got the solar panels, because solar PV is one of the few capital investments where a sole trader or company can deduct the full cost of the equipment from their profits in the year they bought them.