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.

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