The Conservative Party this month set out a range of policy proposals, including a feed-in tariff scheme, for the support of microgeneration technologies. The main policies, sketched out in a new report* and launched at a speech at Greenpeace's London base, include the following: 1. Introduction of a system of feed-in tariffs for micro-generation technologies and the scrapping of the current grant scheme. Costs over the long term, estimated to be between ￡200 million and ￡300 million, are to be met by the revenues received from the auction of permits for the Emissions Trading Scheme; 2. Creation of a "decentralized energy fund," so that the electricity supplier's net cost in paying the tariff will be met by government; 3. Empowering the Secretary of State to set feed-in tariffs for each form of micro-generation, which will be added as credits onto the bill of every micro-generating producer according to the amount of electricity they produce.
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