Home power plan 'disappointment'
By Richard Black , Environment Correspondent, at the BBC News website
There has been a lukewarm reaction to the government's strategy on microgeneration, launched on Wednesday. The strategy aims to create conditions under which household or community generation of electricity becomes "a realistic alternative".
While some industry figures have welcomed the strategy, others say it is short on concrete action and funding.
They say it will keep the UK behind countries such as Germany and Japan in uptake of these technologies.
The government believes technologies which work on the scale of households, small businesses and communities can help bridge Britain's coming energy gap while reducing carbon emissions.
