Dutch ICMIF member Univé has announced that it now provides more extensive insurance cover for businesses for the consequences of fires involving solar panels. In the agricultural sector in particular, the cooperative insurer is seeing a growing interest in generating and using solar energy. As the use of solar panels grows there is an increase in the risks that they pose in the event of a fire. If solar panels catch fire, they can explode and tiny glass and metal particles will spread around the area around them. This follows a warning by the Dutch Association of Insurers which had concluded that the Netherlands is insufficiently prepared for the outcome of fires involving solar panels.