Tag Archives: FITs

Updated: Feed-in tariffs due to be cut by half, community power schemes threatened

The Department for Energy and Climate Change today confirmed plans to slash the feed-in tariff for photovoltaic (PV) generation available to domestic and small-scale businesses from 43.3 pence per kilowatt-hour (p/kWh) to 21p p/kWh. A consultation has been launched proposing that new tariffs will apply to all PV installations fitted on or after 12 December [...]

Tags: , , , , , , , , | Posted by matthewnoble on October 30, 2011

Solar financing scheme presentation from the Local Energy CSPS events

  With councils and the public sector now being offered a range of financial schemes to take advantage of government feed-in tariffs; we spent some time at our July events discussing the potential opportunities and downsides of the different solar options. At our London and Newcastle events we also heard from Craig Copeland, Director of [...]

Tags: , , , , | Posted by Jonathan Balls on August 1, 2011
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Local Energy survey on solar opportunities for councils

Over the last year there has been a rapid multiplying of opportunities and offers open to councils and local government in the solar technology field. These opportunities have been made possible because of the feed-in tariffs (FITs) for solar electricity offered by the government. The offers being presented to councils have also become more focused [...]

Tags: , , , , | Posted by Andy Johnston on July 27, 2011