Government should stall a proposed 50% cut to the Feed-in-Tariff (FIT) system for solar technologies or risk plunging families into fuel poverty, the Local Government Association (LGA) has warned today.

Council chiefs have urged energy secretary Chris Huhne to delay planned cuts until the end of the financial year to safeguard local councils who face being left hundreds of millions of pounds out of pocket by having to 'pull the plug' on schemes unable to meet the December 12th deadline to be eligible for the current tariffs.