Scotland’s government has decided to go against the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change’s (DECC) Renewables Obligation proposals and retain the grandfathering guarantee.
The Committee on Climate Change chairman Lord Deben has called upon the government to take urgent action to fill a policy gap created by clean energy cuts and sought clarification on where the government’s green policy is headed.
The government’s response to a petition calling for dramatic feed-in tariff cut proposals to be reversed has been criticised after it insisted expected returns of 4% would be “appropriate” for the industry to operate.
Confederation of British Industry director-general John Cridland has lambasted the government over its raft of cuts to clean energy policies, which he said would cost British businesses hundreds of billions of pounds in lost export opportunities.
A “phantom” image of a solar farm has been installed outside the Department for Energy and Climate Change’s Whitehall headquarters as part of a stunt coordinated by campaign group 10:10.
New Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has finalised appointments to his frontbench, completing a six-strong shadow energy and climate change team with several influential MPs.
Solar farm developer Public Power Solutions has collaborated with Mongoose Energy and Wiltshire Wildlife Community Energy (WWCE) to develop what is claimed to be the first split-ownership community-commercial solar farm in the UK.
The Department for Energy and Climate Change has dismissed speculation it could be abolished or merged with another department as part of a wider governmental spending review.
The University of Cambridge Judge Business School has issued a request for proposals for renewable energy projects for their students to work on under the establishment’s Management of Technology and Innovation (MoTI) Project.
