Solar subsidy cut challenge allowed

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15 December 2011, 18:53

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Solar subsidy cut challenge allowed

A High Court judge has ordered a hearing next week of a challenge over government plans to cut financial incentives for solar electricity. The government said that subsidies for households which install solar panels would be halved from 12 December. But environmental charity Friends of the Earth and two solar companies have now won the go-ahead to seek a ruling that the proposals are unlawful. The government has said it would defend a challenge at judicial review. Under the "feed-in tariffs" programme, people in Britain with solar panels are paid for the electricity they generate.

The new tariff of 21p per kilowatt-hour, down from the current 43p, had been expected to come into effect from 1 April, but in October the government said it would be paid to anyone who installed their solar panels after 12 December. The tariff for surplus electricity exported to the national grid will remain at 3.1p per kilowatt-hour. Friends of the Earth and solar companies Solarcentury and HomeSun argue this cut-off point - two weeks before Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) consultation on changes to the scheme ends - is unlawful....Read more here--: BBC News - Solar subsidy cut challenge allowed
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  5corpio commented
  
  23 December 2011, 07:48
  
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  The government's rush to cut a subsidy for people who generate solar electicity on their roofs was clumsily handled and may have fatally damaged a growing industry which had the potential to provide tens of thousands of jobs, says a new report by MPs on two influential select committees. By giving both consumers and companies just a few weeks' notice that they intended to halve solar "feed-in tariffs" (FiTs) from 43.3p to 21p paid per kWh of energy generated, they have created uncertainty among investors and undermined public confidence in energy policy, said the MPs.....Read more here---: 'Clumsy' handling of solar subsidy cuts may have 'fatally damaged' industry
  
  OR..........
  Feed-In tariff
  
  Rampant Rabbit Tax
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  5corpio commented
  
  25 January 2012, 10:59
  
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  Government cut to solar tariffs blocked as appeal fails
  
  The government has failed in an appeal against a decision which blocked its attempts to reduce solar subsidies. The High Court case involved the government's move to halve the payments made to households with solar panels, which it says are unsustainable.
  Solar businesses and campaigners had warned thousands of jobs could be lost as a result of the move. Under the feed-in tariffs programme, people in Britain with solar panels are paid for the electricity they generate. The decision means the current tariff of just over 43p is likely to remain in place until 3 March.....Read more HERE--: BBC News - Government cut to solar tariffs blocked as appeal fails
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  5corpio commented
  
  3 August 2012, 14:02
  
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  Insolvency Service investigation leads to shut down of major national solar panel company. Solar Energy Savings Limited (“Solar”), which marketed and sold solar panel systems to the general public, was wound-up on 26 July 2012 by the High Court in Manchester on a petition presented by the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills in the public interest following an investigation by Company Investigations of The Insolvency Service. .....Read more HERE
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