{"id":17,"date":"2015-05-18T17:17:28","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T16:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eco2solar.co.uk\/blog\/?p=17"},"modified":"2015-07-16T17:17:50","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T16:17:50","slug":"sun-or-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eco2solar.co.uk\/blog\/sun-or-wind\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun or Wind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK Energy Secretary Amber Rudd has confirmed the Conservative Party\u2019s controversial plans to stop subsidies for onshore <span class=\"il\">wind<\/span> farms, claiming it is top of her agenda at the Department for Energy &amp; Climate Change (DECC).<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with the Sunday Times, Rudd reiterated the Tories\u2019 manifesto pledge to effectively bring an end to the development of new <span class=\"il\">wind<\/span> farms on UK land, outlining her hopes for the new measures to come into force by May 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The Hastings and Rye MP said: &#8220;It will mean no more onshore <span class=\"il\">wind<\/span> farm subsidies and no more onshore <span class=\"il\">wind<\/span> farms without local community support. This is really important. I\u2019ve already got my team working on it. That\u2019s going to be one of the first things we\u2019re going to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Conservatives claim that onshore <span class=\"il\">wind<\/span> farms often fail to win public support, and are unable by themselves to provide the firm capacity that a stable energy system requires.<\/p>\n<p>By contrast she also said that millions more homes should have solar panels on their roofs, vowing to <strong>\u201cunleash a new solar revolution\u201d<\/strong> across Britain. Ms Rudd indicated she would back the continued expansion of household solar panels, which are subsidised by consumers through levies on energy bills.<\/p>\n<p>The Coalition government introduced a generous subsidy scheme called the Feed in Tariffs to encourage households to install solar panels, triggering a boom that far exceeded ministers\u2019 expectations and in total about 640,000 homes now have panels installed. While the payments are less generous than they once were, a household can still expect to make thousands of pounds in profit by installing panels meaning they recoup their money within 7 to 8 years and thereafter make profit, according to the Solar Trade Association.<\/p>\n<p>An interesting statement of intent from this new Government \u2013 early on I think!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK Energy Secretary Amber Rudd has confirmed the Conservative Party\u2019s controversial plans to stop subsidies for onshore wind farms, claiming it is top of her agenda at the Department for Energy &amp; Climate Change (DECC). In an interview with the Sunday Times, Rudd reiterated the Tories\u2019 manifesto pledge to effectively bring an end to the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eco2solar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eco2solar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eco2solar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eco2solar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eco2solar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eco2solar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18,"href":"https:\/\/eco2solar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eco2solar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eco2solar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eco2solar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}