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Resources & Energy Briefing: Solar PV Feed-in Tariff - Government response to consultation 2A

Q2 2012

Our Resources & Energy team's latest briefing on the Solar PV Feed-in Tariffs

Our Resources & Energy team's latest briefing on the Solar PV Feed-in Tariffs

A summary of May's briefing:

  • Solar PV Feed-in Tariffs are set to be reduced from current levels on the 1st August 2012.
  • Subsequent reductions will occur every 3 months on 1st November, 1st February and 1st May.
  • Reductions will be announced 2 months in advance and will be dependent upon the deployment level in the previous 3 month period.
  • A baseline degression of 3.5% every 3 months will be in operation with higher degression if deployment is high.
  • The tariff lifetime will be reduced from 25 to 20 years.
  • Multi-installation tariff for those with more than 25 installations will be reduced to 90% of the full FiT.
  • Export tariff is to be increased to 4.5p/kWh.
  • Indexation of the tariff will continue to be in line with the Retail Price Index (RPI).

To read the full briefing, please click here.