Benefits of Solar Heating for Residential Solar Energy

Financial Benefits

The Feed-in Tariff for solar will pay for existing and new installations (sometimes called the Clean Energy Cashback Scheme):

• A generation tariff of up to 43.3p for every kWh of solar electricity generated.

• An additional export tariff of 3.1p is automatically applied to every unit of unused solar electricity that is fed into the national grid.

The Feed-in Tariff currently offers significantly better yields than other financial products, such as ISAs, bonds, gold, or interest from banks and building societies. It will also significantly reduce your electricity bills and help protect against future price increases.

The difference payment is:

• Guaranteed for 25 years at the rate you enter the scheme.

• Index-linked to the RPI.

• Tax-free for domestic users.

• Designed to encourage early adopters. Environmental Benefits

• You will become more self-sufficient in the long term by generating your own clean, renewable energy sources.

• You will make a significant contribution to reducing the UK's CO2 emissions and reducing your own carbon footprint.

• As a microgenerator, you will help reduce the need for imported gas.

• The more centrally we produce clean electricity, the less we rely on dirty and risky oil and gas drilling deposits.

• When more homeowners like you generate their own clean electricity, the UK will need to build fewer coal, gas, and nuclear power plants.