The Supreme Court has today rejected an appeal bid by the Department of Energy and Climate Change over cuts to the Feed-in Tariff scheme for solar PV.
A panel of Supreme Justices refused the Government leave to appeal an earlier High Court ruling that the cuts were unlawful.
The decision leaves Energy Ministers out of legal options and they must now accept they acted unlawfully by proposing to bring in cuts before the consultation period on changes was completed.
It means solar PV installations registered after the original December 12, 2011, deadline and before the March 3, 2012, contingency date now qualify for the original 43.3p kw/h subsidy rate.
Great news!!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17490096
http://www.clickgreen.org.uk/news/n...kicks-out-decc-appeal-on-feed-in-tariffs.html
A panel of Supreme Justices refused the Government leave to appeal an earlier High Court ruling that the cuts were unlawful.
The decision leaves Energy Ministers out of legal options and they must now accept they acted unlawfully by proposing to bring in cuts before the consultation period on changes was completed.
It means solar PV installations registered after the original December 12, 2011, deadline and before the March 3, 2012, contingency date now qualify for the original 43.3p kw/h subsidy rate.
Great news!!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17490096
http://www.clickgreen.org.uk/news/n...kicks-out-decc-appeal-on-feed-in-tariffs.html