Government confirm support for large solar in the UK
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Solar photovoltaic (PV) industry developers were today given certainty on projects to be supported under the Government’s Renewables Obligation (RO).
Edward Davey, Energy and Climate Change Secretary, said: “We want to see a healthy solar industry that grows in a sustainable way. That’s why our support levels reflect the fall in the cost of the technology.”
In order to incentivise solar projects on buildings, building-mounted solar PV projects will receive higher rates than ground-mounted projects. This will encourage the installation of solar projects at large factory or warehouse buildings.
From 1st April 2013, ground mounted projects will get 1.6 ROCs per MWh and building-mounted projects will be 1.7 ROCs per MWh. Both levels are higher than in the original consultation document.
DECC also confirmed that developers of solar PV installations will continue to able to choose between the Feed in Tariff scheme and the Renewables Obligation for projects between 50kW and 5MW.