189 grants, representing £635,340 were allocated on 1 March, exhausting the month's allocation within 75 minutes. This Independent article describes the rising tide of frustration many are experiencing:

"The cap is just a liability in the marketplace," Graham Meeks of the Renewable Energy Association said yesterday. "How can you run a business on a lottery? You still have to carry out sales and marketing but no matter how good a salesman you are or how good your product is, in the end you depend on the customer sitting in front of a computer and being quick off the mark to get a sale."

Independent article

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