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The Government has announced that it will end payments for any solar panels which are installed from April next year.
24 March 2022
A new plan to pay households with solar panels for the excess electricity they produce has been announced by the Government – but it won't come in before April, when the current scheme ends.
8 January 2019
The Government is to slash the amount you can earn from solar panels by more than half from February 2016 – though it's cutting the payments you get by less than originally planned.
17 December 2015
Consumers who want to insulate their homes should watch for high-pressure sales tactics, dodgy information and poor installations as some firms may be breaking the law, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) says.
10 January 2013
Homeowners who installed and registered solar panels before 3 March finally have certainty over the cash they'll earn for generating their own electricity after the Government lost a court battle over the payouts.
23 March 2012
Solar panel subsidies could be slashed again by next year, the Government has said, after it confirmed the first cut in the feed-in tariff will happen from next month.
9 February 2012
Homeowners who install solar panels before 3 March can get higher payments for generating electricity, after the Court of Appeal upheld a ruling that the Government's subsidy cuts were unlawful.
25 January 2012
20 January 2012
The Government has decided to appeal a High Court ruling which stated its plans to cut solar panel subsidies were "legally flawed".
3 January 2012
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