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The Environmental Audit and the Energy and Climate Change Committee’s inquiry on solar PV feed-in tariff rates continued yesterday in Westminster. The inquiry took further evidence from Chloe Smith MP, Economic Secretary to the Treasury and Jonathan Mills, Deputy Director, Energy Environment & Agriculture, HM Treasury in an attempt to understand the role that the Treasury played in setting the proposed FiT changes.

DECC has published the weekly solar PV installation and capacity graph that the Minister of State for Climate Change, Greg Barker, showed to the EAC and ECC during Tuesday’s inquiry into the proposed cuts to the feed-in tariff.

Phono Solar modules have received the salt mist corrosion certificate from Inertek Testing Services, in accordance with the IEC61702 standard.

Around 4,500 members of staff at Carillion have been warned that they are at risk of redundancy over the Christmas period. The energy giant has begun a statutory 90-day consultation period as a result of the Government’s proposed fifty percent slash to the solar subsidy.

A Shade Greener has installed its 10,000th free solar system this month, a figure that accounts for approximately 10 percent of all installations completed in the UK to date.

Siemens has opened its Energy Service Training centre in Newcastle in a ceremony that was attended Lord Willis of Knaresborough, former chair of the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee.

The Environmental Audit and the Energy Climate Change Committees jointly conducted an inquiry on solar PV feed-in tariff rates today in Westminster. 

Pramac UK has opened a new showroom in the heart of London at the Building Centre. The new showroom aims to highlight Pramac’s approach to renewable energy generation by showcasing the Micromorph range of thin-film modules which are suitable for integrated, ground-mounted and rooftop applications. 

Andy Boroughs, Managing Director of Organic Energy, has called for ‘clarity and consistency’ from the Government following the unrest over recent proposals to cut the feed-in tariff rate and the announcement of the Green Deal consultation.
 

Councillor Jo Lovelock has written to the Prime Minister to ask for an extension until April before new cuts to the feed-in tariff come into effect. The letter is a direct response to the Government’s plans to slash the solar subsidy by over fifty percent. The proposed cut to the feed-in tariff rate has jeopardised Reading Council’s £5 million scheme, proposed back in August.