Solar is the future, yet the government appears determined to throw it into the industrial dustbin

Convincing article by Patrick Collinson on the Money pages of the Guardian today:
http://www.theguardian.com/money/blog/2015/nov/14/solar-power-feed-in-tariffs-cut

....Cut the subsidy, by all means. Halve it, even. Set a date for its complete removal. The industry will innovate and survive. But slicing it by 87% in one go is plain absurd.....

 

My local MP, Jo Churchill, is very confused.  How does she equate the continued subsidy of nuclear power with her statement that:

"I believe that Government support should help low-cost, low-carbon technologies to stand on their own two feet, rather than create dependence on public subsidies.  Indeed, the global transformation we need in energy will only happen if low-carbon options become cheaper without subsidy than the alternative.  My personl opinion is we should reduce the number of years as we drive down subsidy reduction." [Letter to me, 13/11/2015]

In this last garbled sentence she appears to be arguing for an even faster reduction in subsidies.  How short-sighted can you get?

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