Renewable energy utility Good Energy has warned that it will miss its 2015 expectations as it looks to invest in the business’ future strategy, which it provided more detail on today.
Global solar developer SunEdison has added further weight to growing criticism of the government’s clean energy stance, claiming the probable outcome would be “tragic”.
UK renewables set a new generation record in the second quarter of 2015, generating more than a quarter of the country’s total energy output throughout the period.
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.
