The Government has just announced a comprehensive review of the Feed-in tariffs (FITs) scheme, which makes proposals that would affect any Solar PV installations from early December. The headline change is that a new tariff would be introduced for schemes up to 4kW in size of 21.0p/kWh – down from the current 43.3p/kWh. This will have a major effect on the Solar Schools scheme and the projects supported by Reading Climate Change Partnership which aimed to use the revenue from the Feed in Tariff to help tackle fuel poverty, climate change mitigation and adaptation. A lot of time and money has been committed to these projects on the understanding that the FiT would remain constant until next April.

The Church of England has launched a petition asking the government to continue the previous rate for churches and other not for profit organisations.

To sign the petition visit: https://submissions.epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/20928
(You may need to cut and paste rather than click the link if it asks you to 'sign in')

 

For further details of how this will affect solar church projects visit: http://www.oxford.anglican.org/environment/news/feed-in-tariffs-review-2-nov-2011.html