Micro Hydro Association

OFGEM have published the revised Feed-in Tariff table to have effect until 31 March 2013.

DECC has dropped proposals to disallow the option for schemes between 50kW and 5MW to register under the RO.  See DECC announcement.
(apologies for earlier error in upper limit)

Following the response released by DECC on the FITs 2B consultation, MCS is now asking for open comments from the industry as to whether it should continue to maintain and develop its hydro product certification scheme requirements and installer standards. They have created a short online survey here: Link to survey.

Please respond individually. As a previous participant in the MCS hydro working group I shall be responding with my view that the MCS process and standards are not suitable for micro hydro schemes, whose design and implementation should be site specific, and therefore that their maintenance or development should not be continued.

The EA has advised the consultees of interim arrangements and provisional revised timescales here.  They expect to recommence hydropower working group meetings in 2013