Thursday, 24 May 2012

Tariff cut leaves solar plans on the scrapheap

04/11/2011 | By Nick Duxbury

The sun set on landlords’ solar ambitions this week as an unexpectedly savage cut to a subsidy payment for solar photovoltaic panels left the majority of social housing PV schemes unviable.

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