Climate minister offers olive branch to angry solar developers

James S Murray
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As judicial review gets go-ahead, climate minister defends cuts to solar incentives and pledges to support rollout of hundreds of thousands of installations

Climate minister Greg Barker has today attempted to quell anger among solar developers over the government's decision to impose deep cuts to feed-in tariff (FIT) incentives for large solar projects, insisting...

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