Friends of the Earth warns of legal challenges if FiT's reduced ahead of promised review dates.

Ahead of last weeks Government cuts announcement, Friends of the Earth had already warned Ministers that they could face legal challenges if they reduced the feed-in tariffs ahead of the 2013 date set by the previous Government for tariff reviews.

At the time of writing this article, media reports were speculating a 10% reduction in the tariff rates for those taking up electricity renewable generation after any cuts were announced.

Those already claiming feed-in tariffs shouldn't be affected by any reductions.

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Feed in Tariffs for the UK - Rates may not be ambitious enough

If you've been looking into renewable energy for your home, then you'll probably be aware of proposed feed-in tariffs due in April this year.

New Energy Focus ran an excellent editorial yesterday which also gives us some idea of what to expect when the Government announce the tariffs next week.

There's some big statistics quoted on what you, the public, think of the proposals with Friends of the Earth claiming that two-thirds of population don't think the proposed levels are ambitious enough.

I guess we'll have to wait until next week to find out for sure, but in the meantime, you may enjoy reading the full article on New Energy Focus - click here.

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