For much of the past decade, solar panels have dominated conversations about on-site renewable energy generation.
Costs have fallen, installations have become routine and the technology is now as familiar on farm rooftops as it is on suburban houses.
Yet for Kate Samedova, Sales Executive at Freen, a European manufacturer of wind turbines and energy storage systems, the story of small-scale generation is far from finished.
"Solar solved one part of the puzzle," she says. "But when you look at when the UK actually needs energy most, during winter evenings and overcast days, solar comes up short. That gap is where wind becomes genuinely important."
Kate has spent years observing how the renewable energy sector talks about itself. Lately, she believes that the terms of that conversation have shifted.
