A consultation paper published by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) says the government “considers it necessary to take action to control the costs of large-scale solar PV to ensure it is affordable in the context of the RO and Electricity Market Reform”.

The scheme will be closed to new solar projects over 5MW from 1 April 2015.

“Large-scale solar is deploying much faster than we expected,” DECC says.

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