The new Conservative government has been in power for less than three months but has already announced a tranche of anti-green policies and undermined investor confidence in the sector, precisely what the renewables industry pleaded with it not to do prior to the general election.
Earlier than expected cuts to onshore wind subsidies, the removal of Climate Change Levy exemption for renewables and a rumoured overspend in the Levy Control Framework budget, coupled with the Department for Energy and Climate Change having its budget for the next year slashed by £70 million, has led the industry to ask just one question: what's next?
Cover image credit: The Department for Energy and Climate Change.