‘This large and (in some respects) novel claim arises out of the defendant’s proposal, announced in a Written Ministerial Statement on Monday 31 October 2011 and a consultation document published on the same day, to bring forward the cut-off date by which certain Feed-in-Tariffs (‘FIT’) at a particular rate would be paid to generators (or their nominated recipients) involved in small-scale solar panel installations. The FIT scheme was designed to encourage small-scale low carbon generation installations. However, by October 2011, the defendant thought that the initial rates for solar photovoltaic installations were too generous to generators. So the defendant proposed to bring forward, from 1 April 2012 to 12 December 2011, the date by which the installations had to be commissioned/registered in order to qualify for the highest FIT rate. ‘
Judges:
Coulson J
Citations:
[2014] EWHC 2257 (QB), [2014] JPL 1346, [2015] 2 All ER 44
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Utilities, Environment
Updated: 07 August 2022; Ref: scu.534045