Seventy one per cent of all the new power generating capacity fitted in the EU last year came from solar panels, wind turbines or other renewable energy sources

On the way the solar power FiT works: As Lord Marland put it this week: “It is already going to cost the consumer £7 billion for £400 million of net present value.” This makes the consumer £ 6.6 billion poorer of course. We really do want to remember only to do those things which have

The fledgling industry has been flourishing, but the halving of government subsidies has thrown it into confusion, reports Iain Hollingshead.

Luciana Berger MP, Labour’s Shadow Climate Change Minister, has criticised Energy and Climate Change Ministers for spending over £70,000 on away days to private members clubs, hotels, Fulham FC’s Craven Cottage Stadium and the London Wetlands Centre.  

A plan to subsidise solar panels on homes was "one of the most ridiculous schemes ever dreamed up", a Government minister has said.

Caroline Flint MP, Labour's Shadow Energy and Climate Change Secretary, has accused ministers of trying to hide job losses in the solar industry, after obtaining Government estimates showing that the cuts to the Feed-in Tariff could cause tens of thousands of job losses &# even though ministers originally claimed the plans could create 10,000 jobs.

The Court of Appeal has upheld an earlier ruling that government cuts to household power-generating subsidies are illegal

Caroline Flint MP, Labour's Shadow Energy and Climate Change Secretary, said in response to the news that the Government has lost its appeal against a High Court ruling which found that cuts to solar tariff payments are legally flawed:

Caroline Flint MP, Labour's Shadow Energy and Climate Change Secretary, responding to a Government statement on the cuts to the Feed-in Tariffs for solar, said:

Germany’s solar energy output defied government subsidy cuts to rise by a record 60% last year, according to the German Solar Industry Association BSW-Solar. More »