Following on from the recent changes by the government to onshore wind subsidies and large solar developments, Amber Rudd the secretary of state for energy and climate change this morning announced that they intend to take the cuts a whole lot further. The Department of Energy and Climate Change is launching a consultation on proposals to stop solar farms with less than 5MW of capacity accessing the Renewables Obligation (RO) subsidy scheme from April next year. The consultation will close on September 2nd and DECC said it would aim to publish its decision as soon as possible thereafter.
