Clause 36
Energy Bill
1:15 pm
Martin Horwood (Shadow Minister (Environment), Environment, Food & Rural Affairs; Cheltenham, Liberal Democrat)
No, on the specific issue of the adjustments to the German system. On further investigation, the Minister might find that those changes were grandfathered so that new entrants were earning the lower rate of the feed-in tariff. More importantly, they are a measure of the success of the German photovoltaic industry because they reflect a lesser need to subsidise the expanding and successful solar industry. Therefore, they are a measure of the success of feed-in tariffs, not a weakness.