03 February 2012

Today's update

Energy-saving company UPL is making its mark beyond Wales, as Robert Llewellyn Jones found when he spoke to its co-founder.

Tony Taylor, Commercial Director, discusses the opportunities in Wales' increasingly green energy infrastructure and the challenges businesses based in Wales have in securing investment and stimulating development.

Tony Taylor, Commercial Director is interviewed at Energy Solutions Expo. Topic was on 'Energy Issues'.

UPL will be demonstrating their newest AMR innovation Meter-Mimic at this years’ Energy Event 2011 (Hall 6, stand 2670) and Energy Solutions Expo 2011 (Stand G90).

UPL have been commended in this weeks Utility Week feature - Friends in High Places.

UPL will be exhibiting at Energy Solutions Expo 2011 in London Olympia on 11 - 12th October.

UPL will be exhibiting at the Energy Event 2011 located at the NEC in Birmingham on 13th and 14th September.

UK energy retail companies British Gas and Scottish Power have recently announced that they are set to increase domestic electricity and gas tariffs.

Study by The Institution of Engineering and Technology

FITs scheme are the subject of a judicial review

DECC has lost its appeal against a High Court ruling

Court of Appeal has upheld the High Court ruling on FITs

The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has refused to rule out further legal action if it fails to win an appeal tomorrow over its plans to rush through deep cuts to solar subsidies, potentially prolonging uncertainty over the future of the feed-in tariff scheme.

DECC has today laid before Parliament draft licence modifications which, subject to the Parliamentary process set out in the Energy Act 2008, makes provision for a reduced tariff rate (from 1 April 2012 onwards) for new solar PV installations with an eligibility date on or after 3 March 2012 under the Feed – in Tariffs scheme (FITs).

Uncertainty continues as judges fail to determine whether government's appeal can be heard.

The Water White Paper was unveiled by the government on 8th December.

The UK government has lodged an appeal against the High Court’s ruling that the decision to cut the feed-in tariff (FIT) for small-scale solar installations before the end of the consultation period was unlawful.

Court rules in favour of solar firms, throwing government feed-in tariff plans into chaos