Green leaders urge Cameron to intervene in solar subsidy fiasco

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Good Energy writes open letter to prime minister, backed by 18 social landlords responsible for 316,000 UK homes

A coalition of 51 solar power firms, housing associations and politicians have written to Prime Minister David Cameron urging him to intervene to block government plans to halve feed-in tariff incentives...

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