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Solar PV: UK FEED in Tariffs
The FEED in Tariff obliges the traditional energy companies (known in this context as FIT Licensees) to pay the owner of a solar PV system above market rates for the clean energy that they generate and also guarantees an additional price (per kWh) for the energy that they sell/export.
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Feed in Tariffs

The rates shown are what you are paid for generating solar electricity regardless of whether you use or sell it.

Rates shown in pence per kW Hour.

Scale of installation

Year1
(1st April 2010 – 31st March 2011)

Year2
(1st April 2011 – 31st March 2012)

Year3
(1st April 2012 – 31st March
2012)

Tariff lifetime (years)

<4kW (new build)

36.1

36.1

33.0

25

<4kW(retrofit)

41.3

41.3

37.8

25

>4-10kW

36.1

36.1

33.0

25

>10-100kW

31.4

31.4

28.7

25

>100kW-5MW

29.3

29.3

26.8

25

Stand alone system

29.3

29.3

26.8

25

When a system has been registered for the FIT it is locked into the current rate.  The tariff is guaranteed for a set period of time, which in the case of solar PV will be 25 years.

There will be no cap on the amount of generation that will qualify for the FIT.

Decc (Department for Energy and Climate Change) Feed in Tariff information

Feed in Tariffs

Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI)