Please find below a number of the most common Solar PV questions we are asked. If you need any further information please get in contact
or try here – www.energysavingtrust.org.uk
Feed-In Tariffs are payments to ordinary energy users for the all electricity the installation generates.
Feed-In Tariffs (also known as FITs) are the electricity part of what some people call Clean Energy Cashback, a scheme that pays people for creating their own “green electricity”.
The UK Government’s Feed-in Tariff price incentive scheme guarantees you an inflation-linked price for electricity generated by qualifying solar power systems (such as Solar-Rise install) for 25 years.
The UK has signed up to the EU Renewable Energy Directive and committed to producing at least 15% of energy from renewable sources by 2020. We still have some way to go, compared with some of our European neighbours. Encouraging people to install solar panels is one way the Government can meet this ambitious target. The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) was created in October 2008, to co-ordinate energy and climate change policy. These were previous covered by two separate Government departments.
In the Energy Act 2008 the Government introduced a system of Feed In Tariffs (FiTs) to encourage people to install small-scale renewable energy systems with a capacity of less than five megawatts (mW). The Government has committed to pay the tariff for 25 years for solar photovoltaic (PV) installations.
We will help set you up with this. You claim these from your energy provider. We will provide information and assist you in this process (we also have first hand experience of having done it on our own homes).
Technology is continually advancing in this area. On average, after 3 years the carbon footprint created by producing the panels has been neutralised by the energy savings you make from the installed system.
Ownership of the technology is linked to the site and, therefore, in the case where a building or homeownership changes, the ownership of the technology would also transfer to the new owner.
If you still have questions and want further, impartial advice, we recommend going to the Energy Saving Trust website.