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Feed in Tariffs – summary of scheme reform

The Government has announced its improvements to the FIT scheme following the Phase 1 consultation on solar PV. It has also published two further consultations: Comprehensive Review Phase 2A on solar PV cost controls, closing on 3rd April, and Phase 2B on FIT tariffs other than solar PV, closing on 26th April. We’ve summarised the [...]

Tags: , , , , | Posted by Karen Lawrence on February 9, 2012
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Head of CBI attacks plans to reduce the feed-in tariff as government faces legal battle

John Cridland, director general of the CBI, has weighed in on the government’s highly contentious plans to reduce the feed-in tariff. Speaking at the CBI dinner in Derby on the 10th November, he called the plans “the latest in a string of government own goals” arguing that they create uncertainty for investors and threaten the [...]

Tags: , , , , , , , | Posted by matthewnoble on November 11, 2011

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
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Council solar/ PV schemes and equality legislation

  An issue that arose during our July CSPS events, and has since been raised again, is whether the necessary selectivity of houses chosen for solar/ PV panel installation in council schemes could breach equality legislation. This is potentially a problem because of the significant financial savings in energy bills that tenants may enjoy where [...]

Tags: , , , , , | Posted by Jonathan Balls on September 16, 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