The Department of Energy and Climate Change has quietly injected a £197m boost to the feed-in tariff (FIT) scheme to help prevent it going over budget. A parliamentary inquiry into solar power FITs in December was told that the department had adjusted the tariff's "spending envelope" to subsidise small-scale renewables using money from the Renewables Obligation (RO) incentive scheme instead of the FIT budget. Solar businesses have been in uproar since the FIT for solar generated electricity was slashed to 20p.