Wednesday, August 1, 2012

UK cuts feed-in tariff for solar panels

Guardian: The UK's solar industry maintained it has a sunny outlook on Wednesday despite dull summer weather and fresh cuts to the feed-in tariff subsidy for solar panels. From today, anyone installing solar panels will receive 16p per kilowatt hour of electricity generated, compared with 21p previously, and will receive the subsidy for 20 years instead of the 25-year duration that was formerly available. But even that substantial cut, announced by the Department of Energy and Climate Change in May,...

URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/aug/01/solar-panel-feed-in-tariff-cut
Enclosure: http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Environment/Pix/columnists/2012/8/1/1343822853716/Installing-photovoltaic-c-008.jpg

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