MP calls on Energy Secretary to meet local council to discuss solar panels for social housing
26th January 2012
Neil Parish has called on the Secretary of State for Energy to meet Mid Devon council officials to discuss the future of plans for solar panels on social housing which have been shelved now the tariff rate has been cut.
Neil Parish (Tiverton and Honiton) (Con): Mid Devon district council, which is based in Tiverton, was planning just before the tariff rate was cut to have 1,800 social homes with solar panels. Will Ministers be prepared to meet officials from the council to discuss a way forward?
Gregory Barker: I would be delighted to meet my hon. Friend to discuss the matter. Obviously we want to build a consensus on the way forward. I will publish plans for the reform of the feed-in tariff so that we can put it on a much sounder footing and learn from the mistakes of the system we inherited.
