Thursday, 24 May 2012

Big win for Green Light campaign

17/02/2012 | By Nick Duxbury

Social landlords are set to be exempted from an extra 20 per cent cut to the feed-in tariff as part of a government overhaul of the solar subsidy system unveiled last week.

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