Carmarthenshire County Council has abandoned plans to install solar panels on approximately 2,700 council homes following Department for Energy and Climate Change proposals to slash the small-scale feed-in tariff.
London’s iconic Tate Modern will soon be generating its own renewable electricity after the gallery revealed that it will install an 82kWp solar array this month.
The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has confirmed that it will remove pre-accreditation for all new participants in the feed-in tariff system from 1 October 2015.
Chester-based compliance support service provider, Qualitick, has urged installers to counter the government’s proposed cuts by exploring energy storage and maximising installs between now and the New Year.
The EU-China solar trade dispute looks set to reignite with every indication suggesting that EU ProSun will request a review of the impending expiry of duties on Chinese solar imports into Europe put in place in 2013, reports PV Tech.
The secretary of state for energy and climate change, Amber Rudd has sought to defend the Conservative’s green credentials after the party’s series of damaging changes to green support schemes.
The UK’s largest owner and operator of solar PV, Lightsource Renewable Energy, has expressed its concern over government proposals to drastically reduce the support available under the feed-in tariff.
The economics behind George Osborne’s decision to make cuts to a series of green policies are “bonkers”, former energy and climate change secretary Ed Davey has told the Guardian.
