Nov 1, 2015 | Battery Storage, Commercial Solar, Domestic Solar, Government Funding
The UK government could deliver cheaper electricity bills to households and businesses by pursuing a decentralised energy strategy with solar and storage at its centre, a new report has claimed. ‘The Decentralised Energy Transition’ report has been co-authored by...
Oct 22, 2015 | Commercial Solar, Domestic Solar
Ground-mount solar and onshore wind will be cost-competitive with gas by 2020, a report issued by the Committee on Climate Change has claimed today. The advisory board today published its ‘Power sector scenarios for the fifth carbon budget’ report this morning, which...
Sep 29, 2015 | Commercial Solar, Domestic Solar, F.I.T, Government Funding
Figures released by the Department for Energy and Climate Change yesterday show that soaring renewable energy generation in the UK is having little impact on consumer energy price indices. The figures are contrary to government reasoning behind substantial cuts to the...
Sep 11, 2015 | Commercial Solar, Domestic Solar, F.I.T
The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has confirmed that it will remove pre-accreditation for all new participants in the feed-in tariff system from 1 October 2015. The government has confirmed that, following analysis of the 2,372 consultation responses...
Jul 25, 2015 | Commercial Solar, Domestic Solar, F.I.T
If there was one clear takeaway from the consultation and impact assessment releases by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) today, it would be – the government does not want any more solar farms as of today. It is hard to come to any other conclusion,...
Jul 25, 2015 | Commercial Solar, Domestic Solar, F.I.T, Government Funding
This morning the Department for Energy and Climate Change confirmed rumours that the Renewables Obligation scheme for sub-5MW solar projects is to be cut as of 1 April 2016, with few exceptions. Published alongside the consultation is the department’s risk assessment,...
