UK forges on in FIT dispute with appeal to Supreme Court

The UK government has lodged another appeal in Britain’s long-running solar feed-in tariffs (FIT) dispute, dashing industry hopes that Ed Davey, the newly appointed secretary of state for energy and climate change, would let the matter die.

The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) is now waiting to hear whether the Supreme Court will hear its appeal. The gambit represents DECC’s final legal option, having already been ruled against twice by lower courts.

In both those instances, the courts concluded the government acted inappropriately when it imposed retroactive solar FIT cuts late last year. DECC argues that the cuts are necessary in order to preserve the money allocated for all small-scale renewables.

In something of a peace offering, DECC recently announced it intends to more than double…

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