DECC launch FIT review

[The Solar King]

Open letter to Amber Rudd from the STA today launching our £1.00 plan:

STA £1 plan: Open letter to Amber Rudd in full | Solar Power Portal

 

[The Solar King]

Sorry, duplicate, can't seem to delete it!

Open letter to Amber Rudd from the STA today launching our £1.00 plan:

STA £1 plan: Open letter to Amber Rudd in full | Solar Power Portal

 

[The Solar King]

Copy of the £1.00 plan release:

 

[SibertSolar]

Can you share how the meeting went today Peter? Understand if not yet

 

[The Solar King]

Meeting With Andrea Leadsom was generally positive. However, you must understand that all ministers and DECC officials are heavily briefed to basically say nothing for fear of triggering legal action or judicial review. the meeting was attended by most of the members of the FITs Alliance that have been organising and running the pushback against the proposals. The meeting was as positive as could be hoped for (especially after some of her hissy fits on Twitter) The statement was again made that the Government are listening and that this is a real consultation.

There is a great deal more going on in private with key officials, demonstrating to them the shortcomings of the suppositions used and thus undermining the credibility of the financial modelling in the consultation. At the end of the day there will only be movement if more money is made available. It is not just getting the correct level of support, it is also getting sufficient capacity for the industry to function.

 

[The Solar King]

Please make sure you get your response to the consultation in on time it closes tomorrow evening. You can do it online here:

https://econsultation.decc.gov.uk/o...-deployment-ored/fit-review-2015/consult_view

 

[Gavin A]

bugger, I just started to look at the 4-cloud elios self consumption data, and there seems to be some serious error somewhere in it that makes the last 12 months data unreliable, the figures for self consumption on the generation side don't match with the self consumption figures on the consumption side.

I remember pointing this glitch out when the portal first went live, I'd hoped it would have been sorted by now.

 

[SibertSolar]

It was a glitch based around the two different day/night rates but I thought it was sorted way back....I'll email Mirko, copy you in, and you can advise which systems it is happening to on the portal - he will fix it his end

 

[Gavin A]

none of our systems had figures that made sense when comparing the figures from the proportion of generation vs proportion of consumption.

 

[Worcester]

Our support has significantly reduced renewable costs, paving the way for the renewables industry to survive without subsidies 2/2.

https://twitter.com/DECCgovuk/status/663281997268299776

Doesn't bode well, guess they've already decided the outcome.

 

[SibertSolar]

Anyone else see this? http://www.theecologist.org/News/ne...reen_energy_undershoot_misled_parliament.html

 

[Energetic]

If this was any other industry this would be a scandal, but for us its normal.

 

[TedM]

Anyone else see this? Leaked letter: Rudd admits 25% green energy undershoot, misled Parliament - The Ecologist

Very much worth reading the whole leaked document set (which appears to have been scanned from a DfT original source).

http://www.theecologist.org/_download/398023/amber rudd letters ecologist.pdf

 

[SibertSolar]

Rudd ?completely rejects? notion climate change leadership damaged by ?accurate? leaked letter | Solar Power Portal

 

[SibertSolar]

DECC silent over claims Rudd misled parliament | Solar Power Portal