Feed-in tariff reduction may cause months of solar industry paralysis

The National Home Improvement Council is one of many organisations that is very worried and perplexed by the Government’s reduction of feed-in tariffs!

David Hunt, director the leading renewable energy company, Eco Environments, says the embattled solar industry faced months of “paralysis” unless the Government got its act together quickly.

He pointed out that the double whammy of the High Court ruling that the reduction in feed-in-tariffs were “legally flawed” together with the ‘scathing’ Parliamentary report which labelled the process “clumsy”, had further rocked one of the brightest sectors in the UK economy. (See NHIC News 22.12.12).

Hunt said: “The Government now faces having to go back to the drawing board in order to put in place a new consultation process to find a feed-in-tariff rate for domestic solar PV schemes more acceptable to the industry.

“How can our industry sell with confidence to potential customers when we have total uncertainty over the future feed-in-tariff rates?

“Unless the Government gets its house in order very quickly, the solar industry faces months of paralysis. How can any businesses in this sector plan for the short-term, let alone the long-term when there continues to be such a dark cloud hovering over us?

“The ruling together with the scathing Parliamentary report holes beneath the waterline any claims that the Coalition Government is a friend of business or the environment.”

Further information: www.eco-environments.co.uk