The Solar Trade Association (STA) tells Recharge that it expects to hold a meeting soon with energy secretary Ed Davey to discuss the matter.

The UK is currently one of the world’s boom markets for PV, and analyst Solarbuzz this week said the country is on course to be Europe’s largest in 2014.

But when the Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC) launched its new national solar strategy – with a heavy emphasis on commercial-scale rooftop solar – it explicitly said it wanted to “move the emphasis for growth away from large solar farms".

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