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The UK government has announced plans to ensure the future of the feed-in tariff ...

09/02/2012

The UK government has announced plans to ensure the future of the feed-in tariffs (FITs) scheme to make it more predictable. Transparency, longevity and certainty are at the heart of the new improved scheme, which provides a subsidy, paid for by all consumers through their energy bills, enabling small scale renewable and low carbon technologies to compete against higher carbon forms of electricity generation. It is hoped the reforms will provide greater confidence to consumers and industry investing in renewable technologies such as solar power, anaerobic digestion, micro-CHP (combined heat and power), wind and hydro power. For more information, visit www.decc.gov.uk

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Region: UK

Keywords: Alternative energy sources / Renewables

Subjects: Information technology, Energy engineering, Banking, finance and investment, Policy and Governance, Transformation [Energy processing] (Conversion), Electricity generation, Solar energy, Combined heat and power generation, Heat distribution, People and behaviour, Electricity, Heat, Wind power, Photovoltaics, Hydro power, Anaerobic digestion