“Industry will now get an indication of the support they will receive for new large-scale projects that start generating renewable electricity from April 2013, as early as mid-July 2011,” says the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) in a statement.
Under previous timetable for the Renewables Obligation (RO) banding review, support levels were not due to be finalised until Autumn 2012, which DECC says had made developers reluctant to start projects with long construction periods.
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