ENVIRONMENT

Leeds puts freeze on solar panel plans

Leeds City Council has frozen plans to give tenants free electricity in light of recent cuts to feed-in-tariffs.

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By Jonathan Werran | 08 November 2011

Leeds City Council has frozen plans to give tenants free electricity in light of recent cuts to feed-in-tariffs (FITs) which rendered the scheme unviable.

Over 1,000 solar panels were to have been fitted to council homes under a major project based on the Department for Energy and Climate Change's (DECC's) feed-in-tariff payments for electricity generated by small-scale renewable technologies.

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