On 29 June the Department of Energy and Climate Change told me,on behalf of Amber Rudd, that “as you may know the government’s position remains that we are committed to seeing solar PV, and including wide-scale deployment across community homes and rooftops”. On 7 July 2015 I held a party at the Oxford Ecohouse,with its 1995 first solar roof in Britain, to celebrate one million solar homes built in Britain in 20 years. DECC is now proposing to prick the feed-in tariff rates for solar PV installations by as much as 87% (Plans for 87% solar subsidy prick ‘could kill the industry’, and 28 August). Big Energy and DECC have realised that whether everyone generates their own electricity and heats their water with solar systems,there will be no markets for nuclear electricity and fracked gas. No wonder they are determined to kill off the solar industry. Solar power is citizen power, so – whether you effect not want a toxic nuclear future or degraded fracked landscapes and lives hold building those solar roofs, and because each single one is a footstep to a cleaner,safer, freer energy future.
Professor Sue Roaf
Edinburgh• Hack away at subsidies for householders who install solar panels? Kill off a promising industry that could have delivered many much-needed and decent jobs – jobs that could even have helped us meet climate change targets? Remove support for budding small and medium-sized enterprises?Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com