Originally published on The ECOreport. In 2010, the UK set up a solar feed-in tariff (FiT) that has been far more successful than it anticipated. The country slashed it in half the following year and now proposes slashing the tariff another 87% in January 2016. Only, Britain’s rooftop solar industry is not … [continued]
The first major speech given by the UK’s new Energy Secretary has not garnered much in the way of support from the country’s renewable energy industry. Following the recent re-election of the UK’s Conservative Party, MP Amber Rudd was appointed to the position of Secretary of State for Energy and … [continued]
The UK renewable energy industry is set to encounter a new wave of subsidy cuts affecting large-scale and rooftop solar, as well as wind. The Department of Energy and Climate Change announced Wednesday consultations on ending the effective Renewables Obligation support for solar farms, as well as plans to possibly … [continued]
The UK’s newly placed Energy and Climate Change Secretary, Amber Rudd, has confirmed there is “enough onshore wind” and that she and her department are “determined” to back the offshore wind industry. Speaking at the RenewableUK Offshore Wind Conference, Amber Rudd was quick to praise the offshore wind energy sector, focusing … [continued]
The UK has confirmed that it will cease allowing onshore wind farms access to the country’s main renewables subsidy scheme starting April 1, 2016. Following the re-election of the Conservative Party in the May elections, Amber Rudd was appointed as the new Energy and Climate Change Secretary, and almost immediately came … [continued]
Following the recent UK elections and the re-election of the Conservative Party, the new Energy and Climate Change Secretary, Amber Rudd, has announced that the government will likely end support for new onshore wind farms, and hand planning authority over to local authorities. Speaking to The Sunday Times, Amber Rudd dismissed … [continued]
An interview with Nick Heyward, project manager of the 6MW/10MWh plant in Leighton Buzzard, UK.
The UK’s Junior Minister for Energy and Climate Change, Amber Rudd, recently came out with the rather blunt statement that solar farms “are not particularly welcome in the UK,” according to recent reports. The comments follow pretty closely on the heels of recent comments made by the UK’s Environment Secretary, … [continued]
