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The Latest News From Capture EnergySupreme Court rejects DECC’s court appealOn Friday The Supreme Court threw out the Government’s attempt to appeal on the ruling that its actions on solar Feed-in Tariffs (FiTs) were illegal. This provides a unanimous decision from the High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court that the Government should not have prematurely cut solar Feed-in Tariffs before the end of a consultation period, placing thousands of green jobs at risk; and clarifies the Government can not change the Feed-in Tariff retrospectively. What does this mean to Capture customers? This means any solar installation completed before March 3rd this year, qualifies for the higher Feed-in Tariff rate. The law, as stated by the Court of Appeal, is that the 12th December could not be used as the Feed-in Tariff cut off date, a Feed-in Tariff date change can only be set by regulations laid before Parliament and can only take effect after the period of 40 days specified. Posted on 28 March 2012 Case Study – 10kW and PV and 6kW Wind TurbineCapture was pleased to commission a Solar PV and Wind Turbine domestic install near Helston today. Consisting of 10kW of PV and a 6kW Kinspan Wind Turbine, the integrated system should produce 17,000kWh of clean, renewable energy a year as well as income and savings of £5,000. Communications with Western Power were required to upgrade the transformer to allow a maximum 25kVA export. During the planning stage a local airfield restricted tower height for radar reasons, the client was implemental in finding a solution around this. Working with Capture we were able to deliver a tower that allowed the installation to continue.
Posted on 16 March 2012 | Topics Installations DECC loose FIT appealThe following statement was released today by the Renewable Energy Association regarding the PV Feed in Tariff rates for installations between 12 December 2011 and 3 March 2012.
REA Chief Executive Gaynor Hartnell comments on the outcome of DECC’s FITs Appeal
DECC has lost its appeal against December’s Judicial Review, meaning that it has to resort to its Plan B, announced last week, and cannot effect its cut to the Feed-in Tariff (FIT) – from 43.3p to 21p – until 3rd March. That is, unless Government does take its appeal to the Supreme Court. The REA is calling on all parties to now draw a line under the affair and allow the UK solar industry to get back to business. As long as DECC makes no further appeal, installers will at last be able to give customers prices with absolute certainty, and get back to business. REA [1] Chief Executive Gaynor Hartnell comments:
“The Government’s action and the subsequent court case had together thrown the solar industry into a state of extreme uncertainty, which was most regrettable. We now want to put this behind us as swiftly as possible, and work with Government and supporters to secure a larger budget for small scale renewable energy generation.”
Other commentators have expressed the concern that if the Government had won its Appeal, a precedent would have been set to allow the Government to make retrospective policy changes in future, such as reducing payments to renewable energy producers after they had commissioned their projects. Gaynor Hartnell concludes:
“In reality, Government is well aware that it would be incredibly unwise to reduce payments to renewable energy producers after they had commissioned their projects, as it knows what immense damage that would do.” Posted on 25 January 2012 | Topics Finance Renewable Heat Incentive BeginsThe Renewable Heat Incentive is now open for applications for commercial installations. This scheme provides a 20 year incentive payment for the production of renewable heat. Biomass, Ground Source Heat Pump and Solar Hot Water installations are eligable. Information on technololgy specific tarifs can be found in the appropriate section of our website. Applications can be made online via Ofgem: http://www.ofgem.gov.uk/e-serve/RHI/howtoapply/Pages/howtoapply.aspx Posted on 5 December 2011 | Topics Finance Finance for Wind TurbinesA Capture Energy client is the first business to benefit from a loan from the new RB/Natwest Renewable Energy Fund. The full article in Farmers Guardian can be found here: Posted on 29 November 2011 | Topics Endurance, Finance, Installations Endurance Community Project Complete
Capture was appointed as the main contractor to install 2 x Endruance 55kW wind turbines for Community Power Cornwall. This project has now been successfully completed and both turbines are fully operational and generating electricity for the local community. Posted on 22 November 2011 | Topics Endurance, Installations |