Households and communities who install generating technologies such as small wind turbines and solar panels will from April be entitled to claim payments for the low carbon electricity they produce.

Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband today announced the feed-in tariff (FITs) levels and also published a blueprint for a similar scheme to be introduced in April 2011 to incentivise low carbon heating technologies. The renewable heat incentive (RHI) will be a world first and is designed to bring about a significant increase in the amount of locally produced green energy, as a contribution to the wider shift of the energy mix to low carbon.

Some of the main points of the consultation document are:

• Feed-in tariff for small scale low carbon electricity finalised for 1 April introduction
• Power from solar panels could earn £900, on top of £140 reduction on household energy bill
• Blueprint published for world first incentive scheme for renewable heat
• Tariff levels index linked
• Micro CHP (combined heat and power) piloted in the scheme to kickstart the industry in the UK

The full consultation documents are available HERE with a more in-depth press release from Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC) HERE and commentary from the Renewable Energy Association (REA) HERE

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