Consultation on changes to financial support for solar PV
Consultation on how we can cost effectively manage the deployment of large and medium scale solar PV under the Renewables Obligation (RO) and Feed in Tariff (FITs) scheme.
Detail
The consultation proposes:
- Closing the RO in Great Britain to solar PV capacity greater than 5MW from 1 April 2015; the RO would remain open to projects at 5MW and below;
- Grace periods for developers who have made significant financial commitments to projects on or before 13 May 2014 allowing them to enter the RO after 1 April 2015;
- Splitting the stand-alone and greater than 50kw Fits degression band into two new bands to encourage more deployment of building mounted solar PV.
The consultation closes on 07 July 2014.
Documents
Consultation on changes to financial support for solar PVapplication/pdfImpact Assessment Part A: Controlling spending on large-scale solar PV within the Renewables Obligationapplication/pdfImpact Assessment Changes to Feed-in Tariffs (FITs) degression mechanism to support midscale building-mounted solar photovoltaic ('solar PV’)application/pdfGovernment response to consultation on changes to financial support for solar PVapplication/pdfImpact assessment of Part A: Controlling spending on large-scale solar PV within the Renewables Obligationapplication/pdfImpact assessment of Part B of the consultation: Changes to FITs degression mechanism for 50kW+ other-than-stand-alone and stand-alone solar PVapplication/pdfAn illustrative draft of the Renewables Obligation Closure (Amendment) Order 2015. application/pdf