Chris Huhne has announced that DECC will appeal to the Supreme Court against the Court of Appeal (and also Mr Justice Mitting’s) rulings. Clearly the aim is simply to maintain uncertainty and prevent a mini-rush as happened in November and December. The good news (such as there is) is that the more they appeal the...
FIT’s – The current position
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012DECC Loses FIT Appeal
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012DECC this morning lost their appeal against the unlawfulness of their decision to reduce FITs from 12th December. We also understand that they were refused leave to appeal to the Supreme Court. Where does this leave us? Well, we believe that all installations since 12th December and through until midnight on 2nd March will receive...
FIT decision update
Monday, January 23rd, 2012Last Friday (20th Jan) DECC attempted to clarify part of the current confusion surrounding FITs. To cut a long story short, if the outcome of the current legal tussle goes in DECC’s favour, then they’ve guaranteed that those who installed since Dec 12th up until midnight on Mar 2nd will receive the 21p/kWh tariff (based...
How many appeal court judges does it take to change a light bulb?
Tuesday, January 17th, 2012At least three apparently. What an utter waste of time and taxpayer’s money. We don’t really have much sympathy with Homesun or SolarCentury who lodged the legal action in the first place, although we appreciate that they are desperate to preserve the ‘rent-a-roof’ model; all this process is doing is prolonging uncertainty. But the fault...
Made it! Happy customers…
Monday, December 12th, 2011We’ve made it through to the 12th December! Thanks very much to our customers – who have also been busy making cups of tea, and generally being understanding on deliveries that move, kit that doesn’t show, and tweaks in specification when the inverter of choice just was not available (only once). But we have been...
Something to say at last
Sunday, November 13th, 2011We’ve all been very busy for the last 2 weeks. We’re going to be very busy for the next 4 weeks. After that? Who knows. Too much to say. Too little time, and too confused to be honest. So what’s going...
FIT for nothing
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011Predictably, there’s been a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth at the minister’s decision to halve the Feed-In Tariff and to impose a jaw-droppingly precipitous deadline (12 Dec). But really, should we be surprised? I don’t think so. From inception the whole FIT process has been incompetently handled at every level from DECC down....
“Environmental movement that is happy with capitalism”
Sunday, July 3rd, 2011An interesting debate continued in the Guardian yesterday – about the position of the Green movement at the left of politics. As a champion of the anti-capitalist movement. Melding anti-business rhetoric with caring for the environment? Not in my...
Fission Slips!
Tuesday, May 31st, 2011Angela Merkel announced this morning that Germany will aim to wean itself off Nuclear Power completely by...
Lucas vs Monbiot
Saturday, March 26th, 2011At last, the Guardian stops making life so easy for George Monbiot. Caroline Lucas from the Green Party actually makes quite a good fist of making George look foolish in their debate in today’s Guardian, billed as renewables versus...