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Good Energy launches new smart export product for Feed-in-Tariff customers
Energy supplier Good Energy is launching a new smart export product for its Feed-in-Tariff (FiT) customers.
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Solar sector hits out at windfall tax that threatens investment needed for renewable energy targets
The solar sector has criticised the introduction of a windfall tax on electricity generators, which it has warned could have a ‘perverse’ impact on the sector.
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Good Energy and F&S Energy to pay £800,000 in compensation for unauthorised FiT charges
Good Energy Limited and F&S Energy Limited are set to pay a total of £800,000 in compensation to Feed-in-Tariff (FiT) customers.
Solar PV represents the overwhelming majority of SEG installs in first year
Solar PV made up around 99.8% of all installations registered with the Smart Export Guarantee (SEG) in its first fifteen months of operations.
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Ticking along: How the SEG has fared in its first year
As the Smart Export Guarantee turns a year old, Solar Power Portal takes a look back at how it came to be and what the last year has been like under the scheme.
Social Energy takes its solar plus storage offering to Australia with Duracell
UK based smart energy technology provider Social Energy has expanded into Australia with a new solar and storage offer in its first step outside its home market.
FiT completion deadline further extended by six months
Solar projects have been granted a further six months to complete and register under the feed-in tariff (FiT) scheme due to the long-lasting impacts of COVID-19.
Funding for solar PV at 1.75 million more homes in Labour Warm Homes for All programme
The Labour party has launched its Warm Homes for All initiative, which would see a wide scale rollout of renewables and low carbon technologies such as solar PV.
Farewell FiTs: 242.5MW deployed in late FiT deployment surge
Almost 242.5MW of solar was installed under the feed-in tariff in Q1 2019, representing a significant surge as the scheme was shuttered for good.
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UK rooftop solar at a crossroads; planning for life after tariffs
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As the tariff and potentially export payment regimes comes to an end, never before has it been more important to look at alternative means to ensure rooftop solar continues to play a part in national decarbonisation. However, international comparisons raised at an event yesterday demonstrate how more needs to be done to move the conversation on from tariffs to planning, with the government far from off the hook.
Npower admits data breach of around 5,000 feed-in tariff customers
Personal information of thousands of feed-in tariff recipients has been incorrectly shared by npower, sparking an investigation by the Information Commissioner’s Office into the supplier and an unnamed ‘fulfilment partner’.
BEIS confirms intent to cull export tariff alongside FiT in future solar proposals
The government has confirmed it will close the small-scale feed-in tariff (FiT) on 31 March 2019 as planned and, crucially, close the export tariff to new installations at the same time.
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Solar’s Groundhog Day, and escaping government’s perpetual cycle
Liam Stoker ruminates on recent news surrounding the government’s management of the feed-in tariff and other subsidies, and how it’s time solar got off the government’s policy Ferris Wheel.
Exclusive: Government feed-in tariff settlements to cost taxpayers £60 million
Nearly £60 million of taxpayer money has been used by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy to settle claims it unlawfully adjusted the solar feed-in tariff in 2011, Solar Power Portal can reveal.
FiT growth and decentralised services leave Good Energy in ‘exciting position’
Good Energy has said that its growing share of the feed-in tariff administration market, coupled with new propositions in decentralised energy such as energy storage, has left the supplier in an “exciting position” for the coming year.
Centrica to ‘scale back’ solar business just as Cornwall installs set to start
Centrica has said it has been forced to scale back its domestic solar business amidst growing uncertainty surrounding the feed-in tariff.
UPDATED: Government quietly shelves plans for feed-in tariff review
The government has appeared to shelve plans for a review of the feed-in tariff, adding more uncertainty to the domestic renewables sector.
Renewables groups demand action over FiT as two-year anniversary looms
Energy secretary Greg Clarke has been warned that the UK is at great risk of missing out on the benefit of low carbon power if it does not address concerns surrounding deployment.
Solar deployment just over half BEIS expectations as FiT enters final straight
After eight quarters of deployment under the revised feed-in tariff scheme, solar PV continues to deploy at around half the level government expected it to, recent statistics have revealed.
Government warned of ‘catastrophic shutdown’ as it ends new low carbon levies until 2025
The government has confirmed that there will be no new low carbon power levies until 2025, dealing a blow to new renewable energy generation in the UK.
‘No factual evidence’ that solar devalues homes after estate agent claims emerge
“Absurd” claims that solar panels devalue a property when it is on the market have been refuted by the Solar Trade Association (STA), with chief executive Paul Barwell telling Solar Power Portal “there is no factual evidence” for it.
RO accreditation retained by Anesco after adding storage to solar farms
Ofgem has made a “game changer” decision for UK energy storage by confirming that solar farms are able to retain accreditation under the Renewables Obligation (RO) when supplying electricity to batteries.
FiT solar installs continue to dwindle as new regime records slowest quarter yet
Solar installations under the feed-in tariff continued to dwindle in Q1 2017 as uptake under the new regime showed no sign of picking up.
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Jesse Norman and the ‘path to subsidy-free deployment’
Liam Stoker challenges energy minister Jesse Norman's claim that the government's feed-in tariff overhaul has placed solar on the path to a subsidy-free future.
Luxcara adds 19.5MW to UK solar portfolio
Luxcara has continued to boost its UK solar assets by acquiring two additional farms from Conergy, which will add 19.6MW of capacity to the German company’s renewable energy portfolio.