The Department of Energy and Climate Change’s latest solar deployment figures for September, released today, are missing what is claimed to be a significant amount of solar deployed under the accredited ROO-FiT.
Community renewable programmes were dealt yet another blow this week after their tax relief was removed as part of an emerging Finance Bill.
The National Association of Professional Inspectors and Testers (NAPIT) has warned that up to 70% of solar PV companies are under threat from feed-in tariff proposals currently under discussion.
Greg Barker, the former energy secretary and now BPVA president, has criticised the evidence base used to compile the current feed-in tariff proposals and pleaded with Amber Rudd to listen to the industry’s submissions.
Scottish energy minister Fergus Ewing has said that the UK government has been “surprised” by the level of reaction to proposed cuts to clean energy programmes, and revealed that he had been informed of hundreds of millions of pounds of investment now being withdrawn.
Ex-England rugby international Austin Healey has warned that the installation business he’s a director of would have to make more than 600 redundancies if proposed cuts to the feed-in tariff are enforced.
