Solarcentury urges DTI to end grant capping for household installations
Solarcentury today urged the DTI to end the month to month capping of domestic grant allocations under the Low Carbon Buildings Programme (LCBP). Solarcentury's call came just hours after the entire £ 500k February grant cap was allocated in full barely 12 hours into the new calendar month.
Jeremy Leggett Chief Executive said, "since lunchtime our phone has been ringing off the hook with calls from concerned customers. Their household customers will now have to wait until 1st March to apply for grant support under the LCBP. In our view, the decision to introduce a monthly cap based on grant allocations from December 2006 was premature. It's not too late however for the DTI to repair some of the damage, by ending the monthly grant cap with immediate effect, or at the very least basing it more realistically on actual spend rather than grant allocation."
