Thursday, 24 May 2012

Inside Housing
Green light

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  • Government loses appeal over FIT rate

    23/03/2012

    The Supreme Court has today rejected the government’s attempt to appeal against two previous court rulings that it acted unlawfully in cutting solar subsidies retrospectively in December.

  • Where next for the green deal?

    22/02/2012

    As the government ponders its response to the green deal consultation, Bill Hull, from law firm TLT, examines the key areas of interest for registered providers

  • Big win for Green Light campaign

    17/02/2012

    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.

  • FIT for success

    17/02/2012

    Last Thursday Inside Housing’s Green Light campaign enjoyed its biggest success since launching in November.

  • Pros and cons

    09/02/2012

    This morning climate change minister Greg Barker announced a fundamental overhaul of the feed-in tariff.

  • Flint: ban benefit payments for substandard homes

    09/02/2012

    Private landlords whose homes do not meet minimum energy efficiency standards should be not be able to house tenants on housing benefit, the shadow energy secretary has argued.

  • Solar subsidy to be linked to PV panel costs

    09/02/2012

    The government will today move to shore up the future of the bruised solar sector by announcing an overhaul of the way renewable subsidies are paid.

  • Landlords rush to finish PV schemes

    13/12/2011

    Social housing providers have rushed to finish fitting photovoltaic panels to homes before government cuts take hold.

  • Fed demands changes to green deal design

    25/11/2011

    The government needs to do more to make its flagship green deal energy efficiency scheme work for social tenants, the National Housing Federation has said.

  • Huhne hints at rethink for social housing FIT cuts

    24/11/2011

    The energy secretary has suggested the government will consider putting in place special feed-in tariff rates for social housing providers, but that is not currently able to do so.

  • FIT cuts threaten wider energy efficiency work

    23/11/2011

    Cuts to payments for electricity generated from solar panels will have wider implications for energy efficiency in the social housing sector, Caroline Flint has claimed.

  • Green dealing

    17/11/2011

    I will endeavour not to mention our Green Light campaign in this week’s blog.

  • Legal challenge to FIT cuts to go ahead

    14/11/2011

    A campaign group has confirmed it will take the government to court over cuts to financial incentives for solar energy.

  • Industry chief attacks government FIT 'own goal'

    11/11/2011

    The government’s decision to cut solar feed-in tariffs has been branded an ‘own goal’ by an industry body.

  • Fighting FIT

    11/11/2011

    You can imagine that Greg Barker had been dreading today for some time.

  • Labour ministers back fuel poverty campaign

    11/11/2011

    Senior Labour politicians have pledged their support for Inside Housing’s campaign to ensure social landlords can access vital green subsidies to combat fuel poverty.

  • Last rent-a-roof PV scheme?

    11/11/2011

    Westcountry Housing Association has become the first, and possibly the last, social landlord to complete a rent-a-roof solar photovoltaic scheme on its properties.

  • Councils call for Huhne to delay cuts to FIT

    10/11/2011

    Councils are calling on Chris Huhne to delay planned cuts to the feed-in-tariff warning that they will have to drop thousands of solar photovoltaic panel installations.

  • Contractor announces halt to PV work

    10/11/2011

    A contractor has decided stop working on solar photovoltaic schemes after the government revealed plans to cut payments made through the feed-in-tariff.

  • Council PV plans under review after FIT cut

    09/11/2011

    A council which was planning to put solar photovoltaic panels on 3,000 homes is ‘reviewing its position’ after the government announced cuts to feed-in-tariff payments.

  • Solar rules to exclude 86% of UK homes

    09/11/2011

    Just 14 per cent of UK homes would be eligible for incentive payments for generating electricity from photovoltaic panels under government proposals.

  • Government issued with legal threat over FIT cuts

    07/11/2011

    The government has been warned to change its plans to cut feed-in tariff payments or risk being taken to court.

  • Landlord reducing PV investment due to FIT cuts

    07/11/2011

    Peabody is hacking back its multi-million investment in solar panels by half as a result of the government’s cuts to the feed-in tariff.

  • Green light

    04/11/2011

    ‘Apocalyptic’. That is how one major PV provider described the news of the government’s cut to the feed-in tariff.

  • Fight fuel poverty

    04/11/2011

    The number of social tenants in fuel poverty could rise to 2.5 million across Britain if expected government sustainability reforms proceed.

  • Rally against fuel poverty

    04/11/2011

    Leading housing and sustainability figures have rallied to support Green Light, Inside Housing’s new campaign to secure social landlords’ access to vital green subsidies so the sector can protect tenants from fuel poverty.

  • Tariff cut leaves solar plans on the scrapheap

    04/11/2011

    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.

  • DECC could rethink fuel poverty plans

    03/11/2011

    The government may be prepared to back down on plans that would have excluded social landlords from funding to alleviate fuel poverty.

  • Landlords face extra pain as solar incentive slashed

    31/10/2011

    Social landlords are facing an extra cut to payments for electricity generated from renewable sources on top of the 51 per cent reduction announced today.

  • Sharp cuts expected from solar payment review

    31/10/2011

    Proposed cuts to payments for using domestic solar panels are to be outlined today with rumours suggesting the incentives could be halved.

  • Landlords reluctant to sign green deal pledge

    28/10/2011

    The social housing sector is holding back from signing a pledge of support for the government’s flagship retrofit scheme because of fears it will be excluded from millions of pounds of subsidy funding.

  • Feed-in tariff link to encourage use of green deal

    27/10/2011

    Incentive payments to encourage the use of renewable energy generation are to be dependent on making homes energy efficient.

  • Landlords told to get ‘head start’ on green deal

    25/10/2011

    Grant Shapps has urged social landlords to get on with improving the energy efficiency of their homes rather than waiting for next year’s green deal scheme.

  • Feed in tariff fears freeze £175m investment

    24/10/2011

    The social housing sector could be the biggest loser in a rumoured shake up of a scheme to incentivise the installation of solar panels, a social enterprise has warned.

  • Out in the cold

    21/10/2011

    If social landlords lose out on the energy company obligation it will be fuel poor tenants who suffer

  • ECO subsidy threat to low-income tenants

    20/10/2011

    Money raised from energy bills to subsidise the government’s national retrofit programme could exacerbate fuel poverty for thousands of low-income households, an independent report has warned.

  • A big deal

    14/10/2011

    It has been yet another week of grim economic news. Unemployment is at its highest level since 1994 and even if you are in work the flagging economy means real incomes are set to have fallen by 7 per cent by 2013.

  • Landlords to be blocked from fuel poverty funding

    14/10/2011

    The government is planning to exclude social landlords from accessing millions of pounds of funding to tackle fuel poverty.