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Government plans to let communities sell renewable energy to the grid have been criticised for being insufficiently radical by an unlikely alliance of giant retailers, housebuilding groups and country landowners ahead of a Lords' vote this week.
Last week, new Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband published an amendment to his Energy Bill, which stated that renewable projects of under two megawatts would be eligible for so-called feed-in tariffs, allowing owners to sell power and so reduce the cost of schemes.
But Friends of the Earth and bodies such as the Country Land and Business Association argue that to make renewable energy schemes take off, a ceiling of 10 megawatts needs to be adopted.
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Source: The Guardian
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