UK Green Campaigners Furious!!! Outraged!!!

No shortage of phrases that are supposed to elicit anger at the government … but they just make me grin. Solar panels are subsidized by the poor.

The Government is closing an energy payment scheme which will mean homes with solar panels could be giving their excess power to the grid for free, provoking outrage among campaigners.

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Department (Beis) has announced the closure of the ‘export tariff’ scheme.

It pays householders for excess power that is fed back into the grid, to new solar generators from next April.

The closure of the scheme has prompted fury among green campaigners with Dr Doug Parr, chief scientist for Greenpeace UK, describing it as ‘simply perverse‘.

The Business Department (Beis) has announced the closure of the 'export tariff' scheme, which pays householders for excess power that is fed back into the grid
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One thought on “UK Green Campaigners Furious!!! Outraged!!!

  1. Thought the tariffs were “set in stone” ? ….. That’s the way the Gov agency sponsored scammers sold it to us…. Good job we didn’t bite….
    Metaphorically since Concrete is supposed to be a high CO2 producer, we are a super country for tearing down recently built concrete structures and replacement with new ones ….. V&A Museum in Dundee perchance ?

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