UK tax exemptions for property energy efficiency improvements
The UK has a ‘policy gap’ in its implementation of energy efficiency measures for both domestic and commercial consumers. Since the demise of the domestic Green Deal and a series of rather ‘confusing’ Government set of policies since late 2015,…
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…
Green Deal Communities Grant – Buckinghamshire, Ealing, Oxfordshire
UPDATE: As of 30 March 2016, the government has stopped funding and the Green Deal Home Improvement Fund is closed to new applications. You can read about it here. What is the Green Deal Communities Grant? The Green Deal Communities Grant programme…
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…
Air to Air Heat Pumps for Heating
Air source heat pumps are a really popular way to heat your property these days, but most of the attention, at least for homes, is focussed on air to water heat pumps for wet central heating systems. These types of…
Thoughts on Amber Rudd’s Energy Policy Speech – November 2015
Amber Rudd made a speech today, on a new direction for the energy policy of the UK. While some of it was good news (getting rid of coal power plants for example) we felt most of it seemed pretty short…
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…