Solar Media Staff

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.

As the solar sector enters the mainstream, finance becomes an increasingly important partner for the PV sector.

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.

The Next Energy News integrated renewables system award is designed to recognise the best low carbon energy project in the UK.

Solar Cloth Company chief executive Mike Staplehurst talks to Solar Power Portal about the need for the UK’s car parks and other redundant, Brownfield plots of land to adopt solar for energy generation.

Clydebank-based solar installers, Campbell & Kennedy remain positive about solar’s prospects despite the government’s plans to cut its support under the feed-in tariff by almost 90%.