Feed In Tariffs

LATEST UPDATE After deliberating since January 13, the Court of Appeal denied the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) a hearing for its appeal against the High Court's December ruling on UK solar feed-in tariffs. The DECC have now taken lodged an appeal with the Supreme Court. Until this is outcome is decided the feed-in tariff rate is 21p for installations until March 31st 2012." >

5th FEB 2012 - FIT UPDATE

After deliberating since January 13th, the Court of Appeal finally denied the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) a hearing for its appeal against the High Court's December ruling on UK solar feed-in tariffs. Since this announcement the DECC have lodged another appeal to the Supreme Court. This means the CURRENT feed-in tariff remains at 21p and will revert back to 43.3p if this appeal is lost, for <4kW systems installed between 12th Dec 2011 and  March 3rd, 2012.  Between 4th  March and 31st March the FIT rate will be 21p. Thereafter the FIT rate has not been set.

Below you will find a summary of the current rate reductions  up to  31st March 2012 for PV installations:

Band (kW Total Installed Capacity - TIC) .............................         Tariff (p/ kWh)

• >4kW......................................................................... 21.0p/kWp
• >4 - 10kW....................................................................16.8p/kWp
• >10 - 50kW...................................................................15.2p/kWp

• >50 kW - 150 kW TIC  ..................................................... 12.9p/ kWh
• >150 kW - 250 kW TIC  .................................................... 12.9p/ kWh
• >250 kW - 5 MW TIC and stand-alone installations  .................... 8.5p/ kWh 

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What are the FITs?

The tariffs are payments to anyone who owns a renewable electricity system, such as Solar PV, for every kilowatt hour they generate. They are applicable to households, businesses and community projects.

How long does the scheme last?
The Solar PV Tariffs are paid for 25 years. Tariffs are tax free and index-linked to RPI.