Solar Media Staff

The Department for Energy and Climate Change – and Amber Rudd – have been particularly busy of late, but too busy to explain this summer’s policy reset?

The Committee on Climate Change chairman Lord Deben has called upon the government to take urgent action to fill a policy gap created by clean energy cuts and sought clarification on where the government’s green policy is headed.

The government’s response to a petition calling for dramatic feed-in tariff cut proposals to be reversed has been criticised after it insisted expected returns of 4% would be “appropriate” for the industry to operate.

Confederation of British Industry director-general John Cridland has lambasted the government over its raft of cuts to clean energy policies, which he said would cost British businesses hundreds of billions of pounds in lost export opportunities.

A “phantom” image of a solar farm has been installed outside the Department for Energy and Climate Change’s Whitehall headquarters as part of a stunt coordinated by campaign group 10:10.

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has been granted a six-month extension to publish its findings and remedies for the UK energy market.

New Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has finalised appointments to his frontbench, completing a six-strong shadow energy and climate change team with several influential MPs.

Energy secretary Amber Rudd and minister Andrea Leadsom were forced to defend damaging proposals to cut the FiT yesterday, but was there a softening in the message, and can the industry take heart from the sheer weight of political support the campaign has received to date?

Solar farm developer Public Power Solutions has collaborated with Mongoose Energy and Wiltshire Wildlife Community Energy (WWCE) to develop what is claimed to be the first split-ownership community-commercial solar farm in the UK.

John Parnell compares the UK’s “bonfire of renewables”, to use a phrase coined by Jenny Jones this week, with a far more different approach in Washington, highlighted by this week’s appearance from US vice president Joe Biden at US solar industry conference Solar Power International.