Dear Secretary of State,

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Despite the disappointment of the outcome of international climate talks in Copenhagen we you must press ahead with efforts to create a low-carbon economy at home. One of your first actions as Secretary of State was to accept the need for a feed-in tariff for small-scale renewable electricity. This was a very welcome move so I am disappointed to learn that in the next few days you might sign-off the details of a scheme which will fall far short of its potential and see the UK generate just 2% of its electricity from small scale renewable sources by 2020. But triple the amount of electricty could be produced by 2020 with higher tariff payments and other reforms. This would mean the feed-in tariff scheme generated the equivalent of the output of Drax power station - a substantial contribution to our energy security. Supporting the deployment of local, decentralised renewable electricity generation has many advantages beyond cutting carbon emissions. - Businesses generating their own clean electricity will reduce their energy bills, increase their competitiveness and reduce their vulnerability to future fossil energy price rises. - Communities can gain an income and a stake in the creation of a low-carbon economy. - Households, social and private landlords and local authorities can cut energy bills. - It will also generate many thousands of green jobs. A more ambitious scheme is also needed to help those in fuel poverty and on lower incomes to benefit from access to renewable energy projects and reduce their energy bills. While the cost of the feed-in tariff, like many other schemes, is placed on consumers, unlike other schemes it will also pay directly back to consumers through Feed-in Tariff payments, as well as through local job created by the expansion of the renewables industry. Recent concerns about gas supplies and the pain that so many households are feeling with their fuel bills this winter could not be a more powerful argument for increasing our ambition for small-scale renewable energy technologies. Improving the proposed feed-in tariff is a chance to create a world-leading scheme. It would demonstrate in concrete terms that the UK is determined to press ahead with creating a low-carbon economy at home despite the set-back internationally, and that action to tackle climate change can have strong social and economic benefits.

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