Top names have signed up to support the Energy Storage division of Solar Power Portal’s publisher Solar Media, which has launched a series of events and media activities for next year, targeting the UK’s nascent industry.
London will need to offer alternative methods of support to the solar industry if the capital is to meet renewable electricity targets in the absence of a feed-in tariff, assembly member Stephen Knight has said.
Mayor of London and Conservative MP Boris Johnson has criticised his own party and accused the Treasury of endangering community renewables projects by cutting tax relief measures.
Energy secretary Amber Rudd has dismissed the threat posed by subsidy cuts to the UK’s background of solar skills and insisted the industry has a “bright future”.
Solar has once again been voted the UK’s most favoured source of renewable energy, according to the Department of Energy and Climate Change’s opinion tracker.
