Blogs

Finlay Colville, head of market intelligence at Solar Intelligence, on how the Department for Energy and Climate Change is only just catching up with solar deployment in Q1 2015.

London Assembly member for the Green Party Jenny Jones runs through the government’s current stance on renewables and concludes that in being blinded by ideology, the UK is headed for a climate change catastrophe.

The Department for Energy and Climate Change – and Amber Rudd – have been particularly busy of late, but too busy to explain this summer’s policy reset?

Energy secretary Amber Rudd and minister Andrea Leadsom were forced to defend damaging proposals to cut the FiT yesterday, but was there a softening in the message, and can the industry take heart from the sheer weight of political support the campaign has received to date?

John Parnell compares the UK’s “bonfire of renewables”, to use a phrase coined by Jenny Jones this week, with a far more different approach in Washington, highlighted by this week’s appearance from US vice president Joe Biden at US solar industry conference Solar Power International.

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.

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.

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.

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.