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The UK’s Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) views offshore wind as its “marginal technology” – by which it means that if any renewable energy source comes in cheaper, there is every reason to exploit it to the full – but for anything more expensive than offshore wind, there has to be a very good reason for supporting it.

The Supreme Court has today refused the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) permission to appeal the Court of Appeal’s judgement on the feed in tariff…

The price of residential solar panel installations has dropped by 50 percent since early 2011, according to research of over 1,500 consumer quotes by CompareMySolar. Therefore, consumers can achieve a similar financial return as before – despite cuts in the feed-in-tariff from 43p to 21p.

The UK solar industry could be accused of being deeply cynical towards the Department of Energy and Climate Change and with good reason. Numerous mishandlings of the feed-in tariff scheme have led to various boom and bust scenarios over the last couple of years but, more importantly, deep cuts have left people without jobs.

I have been one of the speakers at the Solar Power UK – Coping with the Cuts road-show that has been running over the last few weeks … talking partly about the forthcoming changes to the PV guide and partly about Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs)…

Increased media appetite for criticising renewables would have you believe that green technologies are causing household bills to escalate but what’s the real reason?

Travelling from London to South Wales you’d expect the weather to take a turn for the worst as you exit the Severn Bridge (or Pont Hafren for our Welsh-speaking readers). Yesterday, however…

Last year was a watershed year for the PV installation market. Analyst house IMS research found that despite a relatively weak start to the year, global installations rose by 24 percent from 2010 – up to 24GW from 19GW…

DECC has published some FAQ’s on the Feed in tariff …

Tomorrow DECC will publish its long-anticipated response to the consultation on its controversial cuts to the solar feed-in tariff rate,  mapping out the future route of the solar industry.