UK Government to launch solar appeal at supreme court

The British Government is poised to launch an appeal at the Supreme Court against the two court rulings that they lost over the Feed in Tariff (FiT's) incentives. The government had planned to halve the payments for solar power projects, but when this was challenged in the British courts, the courts ruled against the government saying their actions were illegal.

At a Court of Appeal ruling last month, three judges said the government would be acting unlawfully by trying to impose retrospective cuts to the solar incentive scheme. They set DECC a deadline to request another appeal to the Supreme Court, which the government is now expected to meet. Read more ...