The government emerged red-faced last week after the Supreme Court ruled that it could not appeal to overturn an earlier decision that its proposed cuts to the solar feed-in-tariff were illegal. Installations completed before 3 March will attract the higher 43p per KWh rate, reported Building.
The cut in rate was riled illegal because the overnment announced plans to slash the feed-in-tariff for installations made after 12 December 2011 in October last year. However, its consultation on the decision did not close until 23 December, which allowed Friends of the Earth and solar firms to successfully take it to court.
The Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) subsequently applied to appeal the ruling at the Court of Appeal but that court denied it permission to appeal and upheld the High Court’s decision.
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