‘Consumers face paying millions of pounds too much for solar farms after ministers handed the industry subsidies 10 per cent higher than it had asked for.
Industry body the Solar Trade Association said on Wednesday it “can’t understand why” ministers rejected its suggestion to cut subsidies further – reducing the cost of ‘green levies’ on consumer energy bills.
“From 2016 to 2019 [the subsidies] are actually higher than we asked for,” the Solar Trade Association (STA) said.’
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