An impact assessment into the UK government’s decision to reduce the export tariff to new applicants has found that small-scale renewables could fall significantly as a result. Deployment could shrink to 50 MW a year, with small-scale solar dropping to 40 MW annually. The report by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BDE), which is due in October, says it will take time before large-scale renewable energy can be deployed on an industrial scale.
An impact assessment into the UK government’s decision to reduce the export tariff to new applicants has found that small-scale renewables could fall significantly as a result. Deployment could shrink to 50 MW a year, with small-scale solar dropping to 40 MW annually. By comparison, the assessment said that without the decision, 207 MW to 224 MW of small-scale solar would be deployed for each of the next three consecutive years.