The Local Government Association (LGA) has written to energy secretary Chris Huhne urging him to delay plans to halve to the rate of feed-in tariffs (FITs). The organisation warned that by reducing the subsidy earlier than planned, the government will force councils to pull the plug on thousands of solar panel installations, potentially costing them hundreds of millions of pounds. It is calling on the government to extend the deadline for the existing rate of subsidy until March 2012, the end of the financial year. At least four local authorities have already put solar power projects on hold, saying the funding cut renders them financially unviable. Read more on the LGA website.
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