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…