Government angers industry with move to slash solar incentives further

James S Murray
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Ministers set out encouraging reforms to feed-in tariff scheme, but support for solar could still be cut by 35 per cent from July

The government has today announced wide ranging plans to reform the popular feed-in tariff incentives scheme, promising to deliver 22GW of solar capacity by 2020. But ministers have also risked further...

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