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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

UK Government cuts 2020 Solar Targets from 22GW to 11.9GW

UK Government cuts 2020 Solar Targets from 22GW to 11.9GW

Many people in the UK solar industry have been worried that the sudden cuts made by the government to the solar Feed-in-Tariff (FiT) policy would make it nearly impossible to achieve their 2020 solar targets.The cuts were announced following a report by the consultancy firm Parson Brinkerhoff back in February which claimed that capital expenditure costs for new solar installations would fall by 10-30 percent by the end of the year, a further 5-25 percent by 2014, and continue to fall by small amounts in 2015 and beyond. However a more recent impact…Read more...

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