Good Energy welcomes government’s Feed-in Tariff announcement and proposed Renewable Heat Incentive

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Good Energy, the UK’s 100% renewable electricity supplier, welcomes DECC’s announcement today on the UK Feed-in Tariffs (FiTs) to be launched in April this year.

Good Energy pioneered offerings to small generators in the UK with its award-winning HomeGen scheme and still offers the highest paying financial reward to microgenerators.

Juliet Davenport, Founder and CEO of Good Energy, said: “It’s great this has now arrived!  Good Energy has shown for many years that financial incentives work on a commercial scale, benefiting generators at minimal cost to the energy consumer when delivered effectively. The rates that will be paid to renewable generators should provide the incentive that a lot of homeowners, landowners and businesses have been waiting for to generate their own energy, allowing them to follow the pioneering individuals that have put their own generation in already.

“Good Energy will be the place for microgenerators to come - people know that when they are dealing with Good Energy, they are working with a company committed to making sure the UK delivers for microgenerators.  We have been running incentivised microgeneration schemes for more than five years so we are the obvious trusted partner for any microgenerator.

“Good Energy supports over 1000 ‘energy entrepreneurs’ and has more generators per customer than any other energy company in the UK.  Because of this, we have systems in place to be able to deal with large numbers of generators and we believe that this will give us the edge over our competitors.

“However, the work is not yet over.  Barriers caused by under-resourced and under-trained planning services still need to be addressed - expecting the current planning regime to deliver on the future energy policy of the UK is a tall order and more needs to be done to support planners in their work.”

Good Energy is also pleased that the government is following its lead and has announced plans for a Renewable Heat Incentive in 2011. Since 2008, the company has been paying solar thermal generators a reward for the heat energy they generate with its own RHI which is funded by revenues from Gas+, Good Energy’s gas product.

Juliet Davenport said: “We wholeheartedly support the introduction of a Renewable Heat Incentive.  We were the first - and are still the only - supplier to introduce our own version of a renewable heat incentive.  Our award-winning HotROCs scheme has shown that financial incentives work on a commercial scale. Just as we’ve been encouraging people to generate their own electricity, we’re aiming to encourage renewable heat generation at home and reduce the UK’s dependence on gas.”

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