The government has been criticised for under-funding the Low Carbon 星空传媒 Programme. Over the next three years, 拢30m is being made available to support the LCPB initiative, which will take over from the Clear Skies and Major Photovoltaics Demonstrations programmes that ends in March 2006.

鈥淭he funding is welcome, but represents 拢13m less than that spent on the Clear Skies and Major PV Demonstration programme since 2002,鈥 said Dave Hampton, sustainability spokesman for the Chartered Institute of 星空传媒 and director of Carbon Coach. The CIOB is disappointed after two energy white papers promised long-term funding for PVs and other renewable technologies.

It is proposed that the LCPB programme will run for six years, funding both single installations and large scale developments in the public and private sectors.