Government Fit Scheme For Solar Panels

Grant funded solar panels.

Government fit scheme for solar panels.

You can apply to get payments from your energy supplier if you generate your own electricity for example with solar panels or a wind turbine. The most popular option is rooftop solar panels which make up 99 of installations receiving fit payments. Under fits householders receive payments for the electricity generated by eligible installed systems like solar pv wind or hydro turbines or micro chp. These export tariffs will pay households and businesses that install small scale solar wind or other renewable energy technology for each unit of electricity they sell back to the grid.

Important information about fits closure and future applications. With the end of the solar feed in tariff fit in march 2019 an eco3 grant is the now the way to secure a free government funded grant. The feed in tariffs fits scheme closed to new applications on 31 march 2019. The feed in tariff or fit pays households that generate renewable electricity from technologies such as solar pv panels wind turbines or generating energy from waste.

Solar panel grants are available as part the uk government s eco3 scheme and are intended to help reduce carbon emissions and at the same time eradicate fuel poverty. The new rules will replace the old feed in tariff fit scheme which closed to new applicants on 31 march 2019. An overview of tariffs under the fit scheme for solar photovoltaic pv and non pv eligible installations. However unlike the fit scheme which paid households for all electricity they generated and exported the new seg rules will only provide payments for the electricity you export.

This is called a feed in tariff fit. There used to be the fit feed in tariff scheme although this closed to new applications in march 2019 and so this is no longer an option for people looking for solar panel funding.