The Department for Energy and Climate Change has dismissed speculation it could be abolished or merged with another department as part of a wider governmental spending review.
Solar Trade Association head of external affairs Leonie Greene discusses its efforts to lobby government since the feed-in tariff proposals were made public and what you, the industry, can do to help.
The University of Cambridge Judge Business School has issued a request for proposals for renewable energy projects for their students to work on under the establishment’s Management of Technology and Innovation (MoTI) Project.
Energy secretary Amber Rudd and minister Andrea Leadsom have faced mounting pressure to revisit highly contentious feed-in tariff proposals as MPs across the country’s political parties criticised the plans.
The Energy and Climate Change select committee has responded to continuing concerns over investment confidence in the UK by launching an inquiry into the impact DECC’s policy making process has on investor decisions.
Boris Johnson has said he is “very concerned” about the impact a proposed 87% cut to the feed-in tariff will have on the solar industry, constituting something of a rebellion from the Conservative Mayor of London.
The UK has fallen out of the top ten in Ernst & Young’s Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Index (RECAI) for the first time in the ranking’s history with the advisory firm alleging that the government has sentenced the renewables industry to “death by a thousand cuts”.
Newly re-appointed shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn has come out in support of the solar industry in the face of sweeping subsidy cuts as the party readies itself for tomorrow’s energy and climate change oral and topical question session.
The Committee on Climate Change has warned that the current package of renewables subsidy cuts proposed by the government pose “major risks” to encouraging investment in low-carbon energy in the long term.
