Solar Media Staff

I have met a number of officials from the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) over the years and hold them in very high regard. Make no mistake, these are smart people we’re dealing with. Which makes the recent Feed in Tariff (FiT) review all the more perplexing.

Carmarthenshire County Council has abandoned plans to install solar panels on approximately 2,700 council homes following Department for Energy and Climate Change proposals to slash the small-scale feed-in tariff.

The Microgeneration Certification Scheme’s (MCS) Installation Database will be offline for two house from 15:00 on Tuesday 15 September.

London’s iconic Tate Modern will soon be generating its own renewable electricity after the gallery revealed that it will install an 82kWp solar array this month.

The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has confirmed that it will remove pre-accreditation for all new participants in the feed-in tariff system from 1 October 2015.

Chester-based compliance support service provider, Qualitick, has urged installers to counter the government’s proposed cuts by exploring energy storage and maximising installs between now and the New Year.

Well it’s been a little while since I typed one of these. There are a few reasons (including a broken leg!), but mostly it’s due to being occupied with other projects – most significantly finishing the new IET Solar PV code of practice, which I am pleased to say should be published later this month.

EU ProSun has formally requested an extension of existing solar trade tariffs placed on Chinese manufacturers in the EU.

The EU-China solar trade dispute looks set to reignite with every indication suggesting that EU ProSun will request a review of the impending expiry of duties on Chinese solar imports into Europe put in place in 2013, reports PV Tech.

The secretary of state for energy and climate change, Amber Rudd has sought to defend the Conservative’s green credentials after the party’s series of damaging changes to green support schemes.