Solar panels: what happens to Feed-in Tariff payments when you move?
Solar panels are a great way to create free electricity in your own home. Aside from the savings you can make from being less reliant on importing energy from the National Grid, they also mean you can get monthly payments…
EcoBuild 2016
We visited EcoBuild 2016 this morning and the one thing that really stuck out was how small this the event had become. Last year it filled two sides of the Excel centre in London, but this year it was just…
The Changes to the FIT Explained – 2016
For many years the government has incentivised households and business to adopt renewable energy technologies via the Feed-in Tariff. The FIT is basically a payment made to the owner of solar PV systems (and other electricity producing renewable technologies) for…
Solar PV Feed in Tariff to be Cut by 63% in Early 2016
Today the Government finally revealed its plan for the solar feed-in tariff. The sad news is that it is a substantial cut from the 8th February 2016. The current feed-in tariff is set at 12.47p This means that for every…
Are off-grid battery systems worth it?
With the impending government review into feed-in tariffs (FiTs), in January 2016, grid tied microgeneration systems will see an 85% cut in the generation rates paid out and the model that previously saw consumers see a decent pay-back in a…
Buying a house with solar panels
Well over 500,000 properties in the UK now have solar panels installed on their roofs – this equates to approximately 2% of the 28,000,000 homes here in the UK. There is therefore a reasonable chance that if you are in…
Could the export tariff for Solar PV be increased?
When the Government announced plans to reduce the feed-in tariff I think it took everyone in the industry by surprise. The Government’s plan is to reduce the feed-in tariff by 85% in January 2016 – which will severely dent the…
How Do Solar Power Diverters Work?
We get a fair few comments regarding solar power diverters here at TheGreenAge. These clever little gadgets prevent electricity produced from your solar panels from being exported back to the grid by diverting the electricity to the immersion instead. Why…
Adding additional solar panels to an existing system
With the proposed reduction to the solar feed-in tariff, we are getting a huge amount of interest from people looking to install their new solar panels before the 1st January (the date that the proposed cuts would take place). We…
Will killing the feed-in tariff kill solar?
With the news that the Government are all but withdrawing the feed-in tariff, many think that the end of solar PV could soon be upon us. The feed-in tariff was introduced in 2010 to help drive uptake of solar panels…