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energy programmes, and revealed that he had been informed of hundreds of millions of pounds of investment now being withdrawn.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.
The Solar Trade Association has claimed that as many as 27,000 jobs could be lost if the government presses ahead with plans to cut the feed-in tariff by 87% after commissioning analysis by TBR Economic Research.
Despite the DECC's continued reasoning that the proposed fits reductions are "to keep bills as low as possible for hardworking families and businesses" DECC figures show that increased renewable generation is having little bearing on energy prices.
The latest Feed in Tariff payment information for Photovoltaic Installation as of 1st April 2015.
To help our customers continue, maintain and develop sales in 2016 we have created a tool that allows you to offer a package to your customers to reduce their energy bills, but also deliver a significantly improved payback period than the FITs alone
