You want to reduce your carbon footprint and your energy bills, become more self-sufficient in energy, and earn some extra income. The Feed-In Tariffs are a new Government-backed measure to make it worth your while to produce renewable electricity.

The definitive information source on the Feed-In Tariffs

This website tells you everything you need to know. If you want to know more about the Feed-In Tariffs see our Quick Guide or look at the sections on the regulations, eligibility requirements, tariff levels or the detailed pages listed at the bottom.

We also have a statistics section which shows the uptake of the Feed-In Tariff system.

Renewable heat has its own similar tariff mechanism. You can find more information on our sister site www.rhincentive.co.uk. This scheme is called the Renewable Heat Incentive and covers, among others, solar heating systems.

How the tariffs make you money

There are three separate ways that the Tariffs help you make money from generating your own energy:

The Generation Tariff:

You earn a fixed income for every kilowatt hour of electricity you generate whether you use yourself in your property or export it to the grid.

The Export Tariff:

You earn an additional fixed income for every kilowatt hour of electricity you sell back to the grid.

The bit you still buy from your electricity supplier:

When you can’t generate enough electricity for your needs (if the wind don’t blow and the sun don’t shine) you still buy electricity from your utility company at the normal rates but it’ll be much less electricity than you currently buy.