UK Government Finally Defeated Over Feed-In Tariff Cut

Finally! It's official: The UK govt. was acting unlawfully by cutting the feed-in tariff by half in early December 2011. The government can make no further appeals. It's run out of options.

All this means that any solar panel system installed before March 3rd 2012 gets the full FIT of 43.3 pence per kW for the next 25 years. Any installed after that get the 21 pence rate.

You can find a full news report here.

It was pretty clear from the first court ruling that the govt. didn't have a legal leg to stand on over this. But they just went on appealing anyway.

Macho, testosterone-fuelled politics; spite; or a deliberate ploy to stop people installing solar on their roofs for months, thus saving the govt. a bucket-load of money on higher rate FITs anyway? You decide.