Posted 19 January 2008
Ministers have warned that time is running out for public sector and not-for-profit organisations to apply for grants for renewable energy generation equipment under the Low Carbon Buildings Programme (LCBP), with the scheme due to close on 30 June. Read the DECC press release from the 9 January.
At the end of that period, the scheme is to closed and to be replaced by feed-in tariffs, which offer owners of microgeneration devices the chance to sell renewable energy to the grid at an above-market rate. However, the Renewable Energy Tariff (RET) is not expected to be launched until April 2010.
Consequently, at a time when the government has promised to create green jobs and stimulate the low carbon economy, the REA has put forward the case for the Low Carbon Buildings Programme to remain open until such a launch. It is feared without such support the government will cause further job losses and undermine the renewable's industry.
Philip Wolfe, director general of the REA, said: ""This is a golden opportunity to build much-needed UK capacity in the sector."
Read the full Guardian report here.
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