The Conservative government is being “fundamentally dishonest” over its support for renewable energy and the reasoning behind subsidy cuts, Ecotricity founder Dale Vince has said.
Council-owned buildings in Swansea are to be fitted with solar PV installations after councillors gave a community energy project the go ahead on Thursday.
Energy efficiency solutions provider Anesco has bolstered its portfolio of operational storage solutions, installing its second commercial battery at a solar farm.
Energy trade association the National Association of Professional Inspectors and Testers (NAPIT) has called on the government to leave the feed-in tariff alone in order to stimulate the domestic solar market.
Labour MP and solar proponent Huw Irranca-Davies has been elected to chair the environmental audit committee in a secret ballot yesterday, while SNP minister Angus Brendan MacNeil will chair the energy and climate change (ECC) committee.
Low-income families are paying a disproportionately higher amount towards green energy levies than others and are struggling with an “unfair burden”, a report issued by the Institute for Public Policy Research has found.
