I think the FiT for PV at all scales has been set pathetically low, especially in relation to medium scale wind which was already doing well under the ROC regime. Lord Hunt is making noise about how with the guaranteed export price and the offset use of electricity, this almost gets us in the neighbourhood of the highly successful German FiT. But I’m afraid he is guilty of some very creative accounting.

We’re looking closely at PV under the FiT regime as part of another project and I hope to post more extensively on it here. In the meantime, take a look at the Poyry analysis (pdf) which supported the recent consultation doc. Looks like they think it should be higher as well.

My hope is that there will be enough of us making noise about this in the FiT consultation that PV will be brought up to the same levels of support as other renewable technologies.