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Government breaks feed-in tariff promise for early adopters
Posted by Cathy Debenham on 16th September 2010 at 5:44 pm
Tories and LibDems both promised equal feed-in tariff rates to early adopters of renewable energy in the run up to the general election. Now the coalition government has broken that promise and we're calling on early adopters, and others that care about the shift to renewable energy, to let their M…
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FOI request reveals cost of paying feed-in tariffs to early adopters
Posted by Cathy Debenham on 18th November 2010 at 11:01 am
A freedom of information request has revealed the costs of paying early adopters of microgeneration the full feed-in tariff. DECC (the department of energy and climate change) estimates that: There are 4,936 installations affected. Annual cost in 2020 of allowing feed-in tariffs at …
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Early adopters continue to call for equal feed-in tariffs
Posted by Cathy Debenham on 28th January 2011 at 9:50 am
While the feed-in tariff is being hailed as a great success, and solar PV installations are sky rocketing, the voice of early adopters has disappeared from the media. However, a group of microgeneration pioneers who are receiving just 9p per kWh generation tariff (compared to the 43.1p received by t…
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Microgeneration pioneers continue their fight for equal feed-in tariff
Posted by Cathy Debenham on 4th May 2011 at 10:35 am
While DECC is said to be discussing compensation of up to £3m for solar entrepreneurs set to lose out from the recently announced fast track review of feed-in tariffs for large scale installations, the early adopters of domestic scale solar and wind power are still struggling to be heard. Repres…
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