Solar Media Staff

An alliance of 100 organisations has written to Prime Minister David Cameron urging him to support small-scale renewables ahead of the comprehensive feed-in tariff review.

The deployment of, and subsequent feed-in tariff degression, levied at sub-5MW standalone projects is causing “significant concern” for the future route to market for such projects, according to Solar Trade Association business analyst David Pickup.

Much has been said and many column inches dedicated to just what the Department for Energy and Climate Change’s proposed changes to renewable energy subsidies will do to the industry itself. But more often than not the secondary victims – those outside of the industry and, as a result, overlooked – will be hit just as hard, writes Liam Stoker.

Reports this morning have seen the term ‘statistical trading’ reemerge two years after it was first discussed by the Department for Energy and Climate Change as a possible option for if the UK looked as if it was to miss its binding 2020 renewable energy targets.

The Department for Energy and Climate Change claims it has not revisited plans to use an EU loophole to avoid fines for missing its 2020 renewable energy targets but not ruled out adopting them in the future.

Renewable energy trade associations have collaborated in a letter to energy and climate change secretary Amber Rudd, condemning her department’s actions over feed-in tariff pre-accreditation consultation which closed this week.

Solar Power Portal is delighted to unveil the shortlisted entries for the international use of solar category at this year’s Solar Power Portal awards, sponsored by Rexel.

Third-party investors are still interested in helping Doncaster City Council deploy thousands of rooftop installations, but the council has admitted that further reductions to the feed-in tariff will have an impact on the future of the scheme.

The UK solar industry’s lobbying efforts need to be more positive if they are to stand out, says Friends of the Earth energy and climate campaigner Alasdair Cameron.

Ben Godfrey, innovation and low carbon networks engineer at Western Power, speaks to Solar Power Portal about revisiting stagnant projects and how developers can best work with DNOs on connection applications.