Solar: Welcome to the only unsubsidised source of power around

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Labour's Alan Whitehead argues the government's consultation on the Feed-in Tariff scheme and support for solar proves it: there is one rule for renewables and another for non-renewables

Oh, the power of the parliamentary question! On Tuesday of last week I asked the Energy Minister when the consultation on the future of the Feed-in Tariff (FiT) was going to come out. We already...

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