Articles by
Dave Elliott
Great Britain: After the FIT
By
Dave Elliott
The UK government’s plan to abandon the feed-in tariff (FIT) system for small renewable energy projects did not go down well, especially since it meant the loss of the export tariff. Householders who invested in a photovoltaic (PV) array on their roof have used that to offset the cost of their investment by selling any extra power they generated at a reasonable rate – 5.24 p/kWh – to their grid supplier. However, with the FiT, along with the export tariff, to be closed to new applicants from the end of March, they will get nothing for any exports.
Britian: The end of the FiT
By
Dave Elliott
This seems not so much a consultation as an ultimatum: accept interim cuts or the whole thing goes now, but it will end anyway.
Hinkley- deal or no deal?
By
Dave Elliott
The UK government’s announcement of a preliminary deal with EDF and its financial partners on the Hinkley Point C European Pressurised-water Reactor (EPR) project, was met with a mixed response. While some welcomed it as long overdue, with a Telegraph headline saying that it ‘will avoid ‘blight’ of 30,000 wind turbines’, others saw it as a risky diversion from developing truly sustainable green energy options, and even many of those in favour worried about the costs, and the partial reliance on Chinese finance.
