Updated: Government to tackle solar farms with early feed-in tariff review

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Greg Barker tells BusinessGreen that changes to tariffs for solar farms are likely to be announced by the summer

The government has today announced it will conduct a "fast-track" review of the feed-in tariff (FIT) scheme in an attempt to address growing fears that the popular renewable energy incentive mechanism...

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