Consultation outcome

Renewables Obligation: the level of banded support for new solar photovoltaic

• From: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
• Published: 17 December 2015

This was published under the 2015 to 2016 Cameron Conservative government

This consultation has concluded

Detail of outcome

The Renewables Obligation closed to new projects on 31 March 2017. At this stage government has no plans to take forward any outcome from this consultation.

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Original consultation

Summary

This consultation sets out the government’s proposals for reduced support under the Renewables Obligation for solar photovoltaic (PV) up to 5MW.

This consultation ran from
7am on 17 December 2015 to 6pm on 27 January 2016

Consultation description

This consultation sets out the government’s proposals for reduced support under the Renewables Obligation for solar PV up to 5MW, to apply from 1 June 2016.

It also sets out the proposed eligibility criteria for the banding reduction exception that was announced in the government response to the consultation on changes to financial support for solar PV.

This consultation is part of government cost control measures proposed for the Levy Control Framework. Further measures can be viewed in the government response to a consultation on a review of the Feed-in Tariff scheme.

Documents

Consultation on the levels of banded support for new solar PV under the Renewables Obligation

PDF, 472 KB, 32 pages

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Impact Assessment: Consultation on the level of banded support for new solar PV under the Renewables Obligation

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Study report: Review of renewable electricity generation cost and technical assumptions (solar PV only)

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Template to provide evidence on costs: Consultation on the level of banded support for new solar PV under the Renewables Obligation

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Published 17 December 2015