Introduction
of an electricity Feed-in Tariff in
the UK
The UK Government has
announced the introduction of feed-in
tariffs (FITs) - the “Clean Energy
Cashback” scheme – as from
1st April 2010. The scheme incentivises
small scale, low carbon electricity
generation by householders, communities
and businesses - the “generators”
- and works alongside the Renewables
Obligation (RO) and the Renewable
Heat Incentive (RHI) for the generation
of heat from renewable sources, which
is applicable as from April 2011.
The scheme is expected to trigger
a small scale electricity revolution,
supporting over 750,000 small scale
low carbon electricity installations
by 2020 and will have saved 7 million
tonnes of carbon dioxide.
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The Government has set
the Tariffs through consideration
of technology costs and electricity
generation expectations at different
scales to deliver an approximate rate
of return of 5 - 8%, or approximately
7 – 10% if indexing is taken
into account, for well sited installations.
Accordingly, the tariffs that are
available for new installations will
“degress” each year (only
for new installations from that point
forward) to reflect predicted technology
cost reductions. However, any individual
installation, once starting to receive
a tariff at a certain level, will
continue to receive the same generation
tariff level throughout its entire
support period of 25 years under the
FIT scheme for Solar PV (and 20 years
for anaerobic digestion, hydro and
wind generators). The scheme will
be reassessed and subject to review
in the future.
Please see our solar
panels brochure for more information
regarding the UK government tariff,
performance and installation.
