Energy UK's chief executive has called on the UK Government to proceed “carefully” when putting a cap on how much revenue wind farms can make to avoid repeating past mistakes which put off investment in the UK.
The the energy trade body's boss Emma Pinchbeck also told a conference in London that banning cheap solar power would be a “false economy”.
“Cuts to green policies in 2015 have added to the cost of bills today,” she said at the Energy UK conference. “It seems scarcely believable to me that we would make the same mistakes again with, for example, reforms that make it harder or ban cheap solar power.
