Renewables Obligation

Reforms to renewables subsidy regime aims to help curb electricity costs, but some experts argue market shake-up still leaves gas playing a key role in setting power prices

Critics claim proposed reforms are not properly funded, would undermine investor confidence, and leave the UK more reliant on imported fossil fuels

Decision to change index-linked subsidy payments prompts criticism from investors, but others argue end to policy uncertainty could help unlock new deals

Those warning changes to legacy renewables schemes could undermine future investment have a point, especially when opposition parties are talking about tearing up climate policies

Government confirms it is to shift inflation indexation for legacy FiT and RO schemes from the Retail Price Index to the lower Consumer Price Index from April

Cornwall Insight analysis predicts measures in Autumn Budget to slash energy price cap by eight per cent

Payments under the Renewables Obligation and Feed-in Tariff schemes could be linked to CPI rather than RPI from next April, as part of efforts to trim costs for billpayers - but could such changes dent investor confidence?

Conservative Party unveils plans that suggest it would roll back the UK Emissions Trading Scheme and scrap the Carbon Price Support mechanism, the Renewables Obligation, and Great British Energy

New analysis suggests last year's wholesale electricity price could have been up to 33 per cent higher without contribution from wind power generation

Energy firm admits to inadvertently breaching sustainability data reporting rules, but Ofgem finds no evidence Drax incorrectly received UK renewables subsidies