It will be one of the last solar schemes that will still benefit from high "feed-in tariffs" so is likely to be snapped up quickly when it opens for investment in February.
While high feed-in tariffs are now rare, solar can still quickly pay for itself if homeowners calculate daytime electricity use and match panel sizes to that consumption pattern.
Few regard these high feed-in tariffs as permanent measures.
Fig. 3 Flexible power production from biogas plants over the course of 12 days with high feed-in from solar PV.
Power output is reduced at midday to compensate for high feed-in from solar PV (source: own data and illustration, reproduced from ([41], p. 154).
The high feed-in from solar PV during a typical summer time load and feed-in situation leads to a low utilization of flexible bioenergy power production around noon.
Modest load and high feed-in from solar PV results in a situation, in which bioenergy plants stop producing electricity and production is instead shifted into morning and evening hours of the day, when higher load is not offset by solar PV production.
In Italy, the combination of a very high feed-in tariff with a relatively low poplar price results in the most economically favorable situation for producing bioethanol from poplar.
Fortunately for the organisers, they were in time to secure the old higher feed-in tariff rates before they were reduced.
Some technologies such as solar photovoltaic panels on household roofs will get a higher feed-in tariff, and, importantly, all tariffs will be uprated with inflation each year.
In an echo of recent Tory policy announcements on onshore wind, rooftop solar installations will receive higher feed-in-tariffs in order to discourage solar installations in rural areas, which are seen as politically unpopular.
