On Monday Edie pointed to a Grauniad article further outlining the stresses currently placed upon the solar industry. The newspaper states that 4 companies have already announced in the last fortnight that they will be going out of business and another 25 have talked of redundancies or worse.
Now some of these businesses were probably rocky anyway - to close so quickly even before the legislation is in place suggests that they were already skating on thin ice - but that doesn't exonerate Government from the mess they've created. The solar industry should very soon be able to stand on its own two feet, as Amber Rudd stated at the Tory conference, but when you're teaching kids to walk don't you lightly hold their hands until they are confident? Plonking the child upright and walking away is going to cause a lot of bloody noses as they subsequently hit the floor.
A stable and predictable legislative environment is all the industry wants. A glide path to a zero subsidy world would work; stalling the aircraft in mid-flight results in disaster.
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