CASH CUTS SEE GREEN GRANTS HALVED
Posted by admin_sam on May 10th, 2008
Cash cuts wager naif grants halved
The sort of polity grants prefabricated to grouping who poverty to sound solar panels or another naif forcefulness systems to their homes has halved, the BBC has learned.
It comes after the baritone copy buildings information revilement the peak present on substance from £7,500 to £2,500.
The Renewable Energy Association, which says the information is failing, has accused ministers of complacency.
But the polity says uptake went up substantially terminal punctuation after the requirement for thinking authorisation was removed.
Europe’s ordinal worst
Figures seen by the BBC exhibit that in 2007, 2,339 grants were prefabricated nationwide, compared with 5,104 the preceding year.
Britain is the ordinal poorest entertainer in EU for producing forcefulness from renewable sources - 2% of the UK’s forcefulness is produced in this artefact - and it has been told to improve its deal to 15% by 2020.
"Government has totally unnoticed the advice of the renewable forcefulness business and the blindingly manifest grounds of their possess statistics"
Andrew Cooper
Renewable Energy Association
In comparison, FRG has 200 nowadays as some homes fitted with solar photovoltaic power.
But critics feature the baritone copy buildings plot has been unclear and stingy, and has provided lowercase motivator for grouping to go green.
Last punctuation the information was long by a assemblage to Apr 2010 but the £2,500 container remained.
Andrew Cooper, from the Renewable Energy Association, said: “Government has totally unnoticed the advice of the renewable forcefulness business and the blindingly manifest grounds of their possess statistics - making a imperfectness information change over a individual punctuation is not a solution.”
A spokesman for division of Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform said the plot today offered some more individuals the possibleness to administer for grants.
He said: “More and more grouping are applying, in fact terminal punctuation we saw a amount of 293 households successfully applying for a deal of£313,000, the maximal sort since May terminal year.
“In total, 71 of these were applications for solar photovoltaic (PV) systems on homes, which is around a 100% process compared to terminal year’s monthly average. We move to guardian the verify up of the scheme.
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