UFU 'frustrated' with government plans for renewable electricity scheme

The Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) has dismissed a document setting out the Department for the Economy’s (DfE) plans for a Renewable Electricity Support Scheme

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UFU ‘frustrated’ with governments plans for renewable electricity scheme
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UFU ‘frustrated’ with governments plans for renewable electricity scheme

The UFU say policy objectives are focused solely on large scale renewable electricity producers to the disadvantage of farmers as smaller scale electricity generators. William Irvine, UFU deputy president...

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