The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has confirmed that the Renewables Obligation (RO) for new solar PV capacity of 5MW and below is to be closed a year early on 1 April 2016.
The Department of Energy and Climate Change’s impact assessment accompanying today’s feed-in tariff announcement has revealed that it expects there to be 5.2GW less solar deployed by 2020 and as many as 18,700 jobs to be lost in the industry.
Reactions to the release of the government’s decision to cut the domestic feed-in tariff rate by 65% and introduce quarterly deployment caps have started to pour.
John Parnell discusses the current government’s carbon track record after contributing towards what has been touted as an historic agreement in Paris last weekend.
RM Capital has announced that it will continue to offer finance to solar projects in January 2016 in spite of the dangers posed by government plans to cut subsidy for renewables projects.
Domestic solar installations up to 10kW in size will receive a feed-in tariff rate of 4.39p/kWh when the new rates come into force after the Department of Energy and Climate Change published the eagerly anticipated results of its consultation.
The UK government is opposed to the European Union’s minimum import price (MIP) on solar modules and has lobbied the European Commission on the matter, energy secretary Amber Rudd has confirmed.
Leading figures from the UK solar industry have rounded on George Osborne and claimed he is responsible for the “incredible destruction” being experienced throughout the renewables sector.
Amber Rudd has refuted suggestions that HM Treasury is running energy policy during what turned out to be a difficult session before the select committee for the energy secretary.
Ireland has today set out a raft of clean energy policies and support mechanisms designed to reduce carbon emissions from its energy sector by up to 95% by 2050, with solar to play a central role.
