Published today (5th September, 2008) by John Constable, Director of Policy and Research for the Renewable Energy Foundation and Bob Barfoot, Chairman of North Devon Campaign to Protect Rural England, this white paper examines the Renewables Obligation payment system. Summarising, the paper concludes that, "...we set out to explain why it is that wind energy projects are far and away the most frequent proposals set before the planning system. We have seen that this is not because of any intrinsic merit or economic superiority, but rather because of an imbalance in the Renewables Obligation."

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