The UK’s largest owner and operator of solar PV, Lightsource Renewable Energy, has expressed its concern over government proposals to drastically reduce the support available under the feed-in tariff.
The economics behind George Osborne’s decision to make cuts to a series of green policies are “bonkers”, former energy and climate change secretary Ed Davey has told the Guardian.
With the Department of Energy and Climate Change publishing their devastating proposals for the feed-in tariff scheme, I’ve written to the Prime Minister to ask him to explain his government’s policy. I don’t hold out much hope for a response but needed to get this off my chest.
Not content with completely decimating the available feed-in tariff rates for solar, the Department of Energy and Climate Change’s (DECC) potentially catastrophic consultation on the future of the feed-in tariff (FiT) also introduces the possibility of a cap on all new FiT expenditure.
The chairman of the Solar Trade Association Scotland has voiced fierce criticism over the government’s recent proposals to cut the feed-in tariff for solar PV by almost 90% but has expressed his hope that Scotland’s political support for solar could save the country’s PV sector.
Solar Power Portal is calling on its readers to sign a parliamentary petition urging the Department for Energy and Climate Change to revisit feed-in tariff proposals revealed last week.
Yesterday Entu became the first solar installer to confirm that it was to close its PV division less than a week after the government proposed sweeping cuts to the feed-in tariff.
Shoreham-based steel manufacturer ParkerSteel has partnered with installer PerPetum Energy to fit a 1.8MWp rooftop solar array to the roof of its manufacturing facility.
