About Rav Casley Gera

Rav is a London-based freelance journalist passionate about climate change, development and technology. He has written for the Daily Express, Excite.co.uk and the Fly. He blogs at ravcasleygera.wordpress.com.

UK NGO Wins Right to Challenge Cuts in Solar Subsidies

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A coalition of a leading UK environmental NGO and two solar energy producers have successfully petitioned the UK’s high court to urgently review a planned cut in the feed-in-tariff for solar energy, the Guardian reports. As multiple studies have shown, feed-in tariffs — set prices that utilities must pay for renewable energy — are the best way to drive growth in renewables, subsidising their development without direct investment by taxpayers. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory estimates … Read More