Government Loses FITS Appeal

The Supreme Court has rejected the Department for Energy and Climate Change’s appeal over cuts to the Feed-in-Tariff. All systems installed between 12^th December 2011 and 3^rd March 2012 will receive the higher generation tariff for 25 years. This is the third time a court had ruled that the government’s decision to set a date for cuts in the tariff before a consultation ended has been ruled unlawful.

 

Friends of the Earth, who fought the case, has now asked the government to set out plans for how it will restore confidence in solar power and meet targets to increase solar power over the next eight years.