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ARTICLE · 31 AUGUST 2010

Community Renewables: Grant And FITs Is Permissible

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In our e-update of 5 August, "Community Renewable Schemes: A Grant or FITs - But Not Both?" we undertook to update you on guidance to be issued by the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) when it was published.

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In our e-update of 5 August, Community Renewable Schemes: A Grant or FITs - But Not Both? we undertook to update you on guidance to be issued by the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) when it was published.

The DECC has now published its views on whether or not grants and Feed-in Tariffs (FITs) can be claimed at the same time without falling foul of State Aid rules, and we are pleased to say that the news appears to be slightly more positive, at least for some community renewables projects.

While reiterating that it is generally not possible for a generator to benefit from both FITs and a grant from a public body, the DECC sets out three situations in which OFGEM may accredit for FITs an installation which has also received a grant from a public body. In summary, those exemptions are:

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