Shadow minister for energy and climate change, Alan Whitehead, has expressed his lack of confidence in DECC getting a good deal from next week’s spending review.
Energy secretary Amber Rudd has ducked a series of questions over potential job losses in the solar sector but did offer a glimmer of hope for schools, public housing and community energy projects.
Solar will be excluded from the next Contract for Difference allocation round, which energy secretary Amber Rudd this morning confirmed is to take place in 2016.
A leading conservative voice for climate change has claimed the Treasury is “at war” with the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC), leaving Britain without a clear energy policy.
All the reaction today’s announcement that the UK will close all operational coal plants by 2025 and pursue gas and new nuclear, with renewables set to take a back seat.
