In an open letter Nick Boyle, chief executive of Lightsource, tells Rudd that while the company is “close to building subsidy-free solar in the UK” that this currently only applies to projects …where there is a “private wire connection”.

Ministers from the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) – attempting to defend their 65% cuts in solar feed-in tariffs – have in recent weeks cited Lightsource as an example of a company now willing to deploy subsidy-free solar projects.

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