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Solar Power: Housing

Commons · Question 5655 · Tabled 12 Sep 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero · Official record

Answered 11 Oct 2024

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Asked by Daisy Cooper

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, pursuant to the Answer of 10 September 2024 to Question 3784 on Solar Power: Housing, if he will make it his policy to regulate the Smart Export Guarantee market to ensure that (a) residentia

Answer

Answered by Michael Shanks, 11 Oct 2024

To encourage innovation and competition, the Smart Export Guarantee is a market-led mechanism in which energy suppliers, rather than the government, set both the tariff levels and structure. The scheme’s success should therefore be gauged by the diversity...