Friends of the Earth are outraged about the Government’s decision to cut funding of solar electricity schemes yesterday. The cuts will see a reduction in feed-in tariff payments made to solar electricity schemes above 50kw. The feed-in tariffs, previously introduced thanks to Friends of the Earth’s campaign, provided long-term payments for small scale green electricity schemes.
Due to the recent cuts, investors have put plans for community schemes on hold, not only preventing the creation of renewable energy sources but also the thousands of jobs opportunities that would have been created by the projects. The Government says the purpose of the cuts is to reduce the creation of too many commercial solar farms.
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