Final court defeat for UK government over solar FIT cut bid

The UK government reached the end of the road in its legal fight over cuts to solar feed-in-tariffs (FITs) when the country’s Supreme Court refused to hear its latest appeal over the issue.

The decision leaves in place an earlier verdict that the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) acted unlawfully by trying to retroactively cut payments for small-scale solar systems installed between 12 December 2011 and 4 March this year.

Those who connected systems to the grid in that period will now get the £0.43/kWh they were originally promised rather than the £0.21 the DECC tried to impose, claiming the cut was needed to stop the solar support scheme being bled dry of money.

The refusal of the UK’s highest court to hear…

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