The head of state has been championing sustainability and climate action for decades, speaking regularly about the threat to the planet and adopting practical measures.
He told one group of staff: “I hope you can speed up the transition a bit”, in an apparent reference to the aim of moving away from fossil fuels to renewable energy.
“I think you’re remarkable, how you’ve managed to keep it all going, but it does take time to get to the point where you can actually commercialise all these things,” the King said.
“But we need it all badly, all your products, fantastic – applicable on one or two roofs.”
David Ward, chief executive of Oxford PV, said after the visit that the firm was shipping “pilot volumes” of products to early customers.
“There’s been a decade of work, getting it from a brilliant piece of science into a real module that you see here, that we could give to a customer and they put on a roof,” he added.
