UK energy policy may be, in the words of Dieter Helm, a slow-motion car-crash, but Ed Davey and the environmentalists who surround him at DECC are not particularly bothered. Today they have announced minor changes to the market-fixing regime for solar PV, with a proposal to close the Renewables Obligation boondoggle, but only to new solar schemes, and then only very large ones, and then only from next year.
"Oh Lord", those at DECC seem to say, "give me the strength to stop the corruption, the fleecing of the poor, and the lining of the pockets of the rich".
But not completely.
And not yet.