Aug 12, 2015
Solar PV is an important part of the UK’s energy portfolio. The sector has seen very strong growth in recent years, due to support from the Feed-in Tariff (FIT) scheme and the Renewables Obligation (RO), as well as from costs coming down rapidly as a result of global...
Aug 11, 2015
In the Government’s Summer Budget of 2015 it was announced that the Climate change Levy (CCL) exemption for supplies of renewable source electricity made to businesses and the public sector will be withdrawn from 1st August 2015. The Government agreed to consult with...
Aug 11, 2015
Tariff degression was introduced as a cost control measure as part of the comprehensive review of the Feed-in Tariff (FIT) scheme in 2011/12. The degression mechanism means that tariffs available to new generators across all FIT technologies reduce automatically over...
Aug 7, 2015
A new scheme made under Ofgem’s Balancing and Settlement Code (BSC) – known as Proposal 272 (P272) – will require larger non-domestic sites, with a meter profile class 05 to 08, to be settled on the Half-Hourly (HH) data their Automated Meter Reading (AMR) meters are...
Aug 7, 2015
Financial support for many new solar farms will end under the Government’s new plans. The Department for Energy and Climate Change has dealt another series of blows to the renewable energy industry with fresh proposals to cease financial support for solar and...