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The Court of Appeal’s decision may open the door for another surge in orders for the UK market, but can the global market meet the demand?
Yesterday morning we uncovered the news that Government was set to lock in the future of the UK solar industry by publishing what feed-in tariff rates will look like until at least April 1, 2012. Offering some much-needed, long-awaited, certainty to our extremely frustrated industry, the announcement has brought a welcome...
As soon as DECC announced its intention to reduce feed-in tariff payments by more than 50 percent, with a cut-off date of December 12, the UK solar industry sprung into action. Some begun campaigning against the proposal, claiming it would damage the future of UK solar beyond repair, while most others prepared to work 24 hour days to complete projects before the cut-off point. Now, with more than 126MW added in on week alone, we face...
As New Year arrived I’m sure many of you reading this will have joined me in a collective sigh of relief as we left the turbulent UK solar industry of 2011 behind, looking forward to a more positive and (with any luck) stable market in 2012. But, at this time of great uncertainty, what really lies ahead?
Today Friends of the Earth and two solar companies have won their case against the unforeseen December 12 cut-off point – but is this really a “victory” for the UK solar industry, or have we been plonked between a rock and a hard place?
As each and every one of you is painfully aware, on October 31 this year the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) announced Phase 1 of its consultation on feed-in tariffs, which revealed a 50 percent reduction to the current incentive rates for solar photovoltaics. While most of the post-consultation coverage focused on these cuts, a lot of our readers have also expressed concern over the new potential EPC requirements.
The Government, led by the DECC and Greg Barker, has consistently pushed the message that in these desperate fiscal times it is the best hope to create a sustainable solar industry in the UK. I wonder is it all rhetoric or will the Minister deliver on his promises?
The opposition day defeat has left the solar industry with little option but to brace itself and prepare for the introduction of the new 21p/kWh rate proposed by the Government.
Now we have all got over the shock announcement of potential changes to the FiT some people in the industry are saying we should just get on and make the 21p work.
Yesterday morning I sat awestruck – along with my fellow commuters – as we read the morning papers and learned that unemployment figures for under 25s have now topped a staggering one million. For many of those working in the UK this figure will generate indignation of sorts, but for the UK solar industry...
