Businesses play key role in feed-in tariff take up

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Over 6MW of onsite renewable-energy capacity installed by commercial sector since introduction of feed-in tariff

The recently launched feed-in tariff incentive scheme may have been primarily targeted at households, but higher than expected numbers of commercial organisations are using the incentive scheme to justify...

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