The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) published revised RO banding levels for various technologies in July, but indicated at the time that it was still contemplating shutting out projects between 50kW and 5MW and forcing them to use the feed-in tariff (FIT) instead.

A raft of renewables industry bodies have hailed DECC’s decision to keep the RO open to smaller projects, saying that forcing developers to abruptly shift to an unfamiliar support scheme would have dented investment across the various sectors.

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