U.K. Solar Chief Sees More Job Losses After 1,000 Posts Lost
- Solar Trade Association estimates 27,000 jobs at risk
- Ecotricity's Dale Vince says for solar, `outlook is bleak'
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The U.K. solar industry will shed more jobs as installers go bust because of government cuts to subsidies, the head of the sector’s main lobby group said, after two companies went into administration with the loss of almost 1,000 workers.
Mark Group Ltd. and Climate Energy Ltd. both went into administration on Wednesday after a succession of government reductions in assistance to wind, solar and energy efficiency projects. Proposed cuts of as much as 87 percent in subsidies to rooftop solar installations from January have prompted many businesses to write to workers to tell them their jobs are at risk, said Paul Barwell, chief executive officer of the Solar Trade Association.