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Solarplaza announces that Hermann Scheer, a member of the German parliament renowned as one of the world's leading experts on solar energy, will give a keynote speech at its UK PV Conference in London on 22 June 2010. In his keynote, Dr Scheer will discuss the solar economy and explain why the UK should invest in solar photovoltaics. On the European solar scene, Dr Scheer, who initiated the world's first and most successful feed-in tariff (FIT) support scheme in Germany, is one of the best qualified to comment on whether the solar industry in the UK can replicate the level of success that FITs in Germany, France and Italy have achieved. The new FITs, which the UK Government introduced on 1 April 2010, determine that utility companies will pay cash rewards - anything between 29p and 41p for every kWh that a company or private household generates using its own PV cells or other renewable energy technologies, depending on how much energy is produced in total. They will also pay £0.03 for every kWh that will be feed back to the grid.