Generators seeking a Feed in Tariff subsidy for some wind installations will have to queue until the second quarter of 2018, according to new figures released today.

The latest information from Ofgem showed that there are currently 52 generators applying for a Feed in Tariff for a wind installation between 100-1500kW. Five of those generators will have to queue until the TP2 2018 tariff period, which will begin on 1 April 2018. 

Other types of renewable generator are queued well into next year. Anaerobic digestion feed in tariffs have been applied for by 26 generators since the revised Feed in Tariff reopened in February, with two generators already queued for the TP3 2017 tariff period next year, which begins on 1 July 2017. Standalone PV has had 490 generators apply, with many queuing until the first tariff period in 2017, which begins on 1 January.  Wind between 50 and 100kW are queued until the TP4 tariff period this year, which began on 1 October.

The quarterly spending caps were introduced by the former Department for Energy and Climate Change (Decc) last year as way to control spending on FITs. Detailed caps are set out for each technology and size each quarter. Installations that do not get FIT deployment in the quarter they apply will be queued for entry into the next available deployment cap. Under the revised scheme, the feed in tariff rate falls by 10 per cent automatically if a technology deployment quarterly cap is reached, on top of the planned degression.

Not all technologies and sizes were oversubscribed. There are no installations queued for wind above 1500kW.  The deployment cap for the current tariff period (TP4, 1 October – 31 December 2016) has yet to be met for any size of residential PV, wind below 50kW or any size of hydro. Any unused capacity will be rolled over to the next tariff cap period.

Decc has said it will review eligibility and the balance of caps between technologies next year, and will consider whether there are grounds to review tariffs again. At the time, it said that review “will take account of factors including deployment levels, broader policy objectives, state aid constraints and value for money”.

The published figures are an indication of each installation’s place in the queue and may change after confirmation at the beginning of the relevant tariff period. The data is correct as at 15 November 2016.

Read the full data: Feed-in Tariff (FIT): Indicative queue for ROO-FIT and standalone deployment caps in tariff period 4

FIT review leaves PV focus on rooftop scale (from the New Power Archives)

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