Renewable Heat Incentives

 

The Energy Performance Centre in conjuction with HM Government have identified the importance of Increasing renewable heat as key to the UK meeting its renewable energy targets. Thereby reducing carbon emissions, ensuring energy security and helping to build a low carbon economy. The Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) will help accelerate deployment by providing a financial incentive to install renewable heating in place of fossil fuels.

The Government will take a phased approach to implementing the RHI. Initially, in the first phase, long-term tariff support will be targeted at the big emitters in the non-domestic sector.

This sector, which covers everything from large-scale industrial heating to small business and community heating projects, will provide the vast majority of the renewable heat needed to meet our targets and represents the most cost-effective way of increasing the level of renewable heat.

The Government therefore wants to provide support now in order to kick-start take-up in this sector.

As part of the first phase, the Government will also introduce Renewable Heat Premium Payments for the domestic sector. We have ring-fenced funding of around £15 million, which we will use to make premium payments to households who install renewable heating. These direct payments will subsidise the cost of installing qualifying renewable heating systems. In return for the payments, participants will be asked to provide some feedback on how the equipment works in practice and suppliers will be asked to provide a follow up service on any issues that are raised. This will boost confidence in the technology and the information we receive will help enable Government, manufacturers, installers and consumers to better understand how to maximise performance of the various technologies.

The Renewable Heat Premium Payments will support a spread of technologies across all regions of Great Britain and will cover households using gas and other fossil fuels. We may consider focusing support for primary heating systems, such as heat pumps and biomass boilers, on households off the gas grid, where fossil fuels like heating oil are both more expensive and have a higher carbon content. 

HM Government launched the Renewable Heat Premium Payments in July 2011 and will announce further details in May 2012.

A second phase of RHI support including long-term tariff support for the domestic sector will then be introduced in 2012 to coincide with the introduction of the Green Deal for Homes. People in receipt of the Renewable Heat Premium Payments will be able to receive long term RHI tariff support once these tariffs are introduced as will anybody who has installed an eligible Renewable Heat Incentive installation since 15th July 2009.

In the second phase, we will also consider introducing support for a number of other technologies and fuels which are not supported from the outset.

Given the current economic climate it is more important than ever that the RHI delivers value for money and ensures there is a fair spread of technologies across a range of properties types.

The Renewable Heat Premium Payments will help ensure that, before we commit to long term payments in a sector where it is difficult to predict levels of take-up and levels of performance of the different heat technologies, we manage their roll-out and learn more about them, as well as controlling budgets and ensuring the money goes where it is intended to.

 

Property photography for homes and Commercial Building

The Energy Performance Centre can provide Professionally taken Photographs for all aspects of the property and if requested at the same time as an Energy Performance Certificate(EPC) and a Domestic Home Floor plan, we will provide 10 x Photos for a minimal charge of £10 inc vat.

Floor Plans for Buildings and Energy Performance Certificates

The Energy Performance Centre

Energy Performance Assessors will prepare your professional Home Floor Plans or Commercial Floor plans using Mobile Agent software when selling or letting a property for use with your marketing plan, which we can also prepare. Floor Plans for Estate or Letting agents, or Floor Plans for your Home Sale are inexpensive and offer an excellent addition to aid the selling process and provide a professional and personal edge to any sale.

The Energy Performance Centre assessment professionals are ideally placed to provide floor plans for Estate Agent's sales particulars. In addition to generating Energy Performance Certificates (EPC’s),Domestic Home floor plans offer a major point of difference amongst EPC providers.

The Energy Performance Centre have teamed up with Etech.net and The Mobile Agent to deliver Floor Plans for letting or selling your home or commercial building

• Dual Energy Performance Certificates and Floor plan capability

• Create floor plans and property descriptions on-site or send rough sketch by email and The Energy Performance Centre will do the rest

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Domestic Home Floor Plans are built up room by room on the PDA:- - Measuring and shaping rooms - A full range of building components can be added - Multiple floors - Irregular shapes - Garden plots, outbuildings

Completed floor plans can be emailed directly to the client or accessed by the client on-line. Plans are compatible with existing Estate Agent back office systems such as Dez Rez, Encore, Vebra, Solex, CFP and CSL.



PV( Photo volcaic) solar energy incentives

Solar Energy Home Owner Information

Going solar ?? your definitive guide to turning your home into a “power station” is here.

Photo volvaic (solar) panels on our roofs can actually be a solid earner as the owners get paid to have them, to encourage 'green' power.

Generate cheap, green electricity from sunlight

Solar electricity systems capture the sun's energy using photovoltaic (PV) cells. The cells convert the sunlight into electricity, which can be used to run household appliances and lighting.

PV cells don't need direct sunlight to work - you can still generate  electricity on a cloudy day.

Costs, savings and maintenance

Costs for installing a solar electricity system have come done quite a bit in recent years and still dropping with an average system (2.7kWp) costing around £9,000 (including VAT at 5%).

In general:

  • the more electricity the system can generate, the more it costs but the more it will save
  • solar tiles cost more than conventional panels
  • panels built into a roof are more expensive than those that sit on top but,
  • if you need major roof repairs, PV tiles can offset the cost of roof tiles

Savings can be considerable - around 1.2 tonnes of CO2 a year. A 2.7 kWp system can generate around 50% of a household's yearly electricity needs. If the system is eligible to receive the Feed In Tariff it could generate savings and income of around £1,100 per year which is TAX FREE. Average returns are between 7% to 11% p.a and could be more.Send an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to arrange a visit and quote after reading below.

Maintenance is generally small - you'll need to keep the panels relatively clean and make sure trees don't begin to overshadow them.

Selling your own electricity!!

You can make money on excess electricity by selling it back to the Grid through a scheme called Feed in Tariffs (FITs).

Feed-In Tariffs

If you have installed, or are thinking about installing, a renewable technology which produces electricity, such as a solar electricity (PV) system, you will be able to get paid for the electricity it produces.

Feed-In Tariffs (FIT) provides a guaranteed rate for each unit of electricity generated and exported.

Example of how the Feed-in Tariff works

As an example, a typical domestic solar electricity system, with an installation size of 2.7 kWp could earn around:

  • £690 per year from the Generation Tariff
  • £40 per year from the Export Tariff
  • £70 per year reduction in current electricity bills

This gives a total saving of around £800 per year.

This assumes a well oriented, un-shaded system, and 75% of the electricity generated exported. This figure will be lower for less ideal installations, and slightly higher if more of the electricity is used directly in the home.

Check the Governemnt's Feed-in Tariff/Cashback Calculator to find out how much you could earn, and see the payback times .FITs are guaranteed by the government for 25 years from installation and once installed legally binding.

Contact "The Energy Performance Centre" and you could be earning extra cash very quickly!!! 

Inventory Management for Letting property

The Energy Performance Centre Inventory Management also known as Schedule of Condtion for Letting homes is a complete record of the condition together with a list of all contents within a property.

Legal Evidence
The completed Home Inventory report can act as a Legal document in any disputes between Landlord and Tenant during or at the end of any tenancy agreement.

Verifiable Evidence
Digital Date Stamped Photographic evidence is provided with every inventory.

Who Needs a Domestic Home or Commercial Inventory?
Any Landlords letting properties or owners requiring verification or evidence of misuse.

Landlords are legally bound to join the Tenants Safeguard Scheme (TSS)
From 6 April 2007, it became compulsory for all Landlords to join a scheme that safeguards Tenant’s damage deposits. Where a dispute arises about allocation of a deposit that cannot be resolved, the scheme refers the dispute to its dispute resolution service. An independent adjudicator examines the facts and determines how the deposit should be allocated. An Inventory often called Schedule of the condition of the fabric and content of the building at the beginning and end of a tenancy is central to this process.

The Energy Performance Centre use eTech’s SMART Inventory software which gathers the data on an electronic PDA which in turn automatically create's a ‘Check In’ and ‘Check Out’ report. Recording an inventory of the contents and the condition of the fabric of the Building as you conduct the assessment.

The system uses the PDA’s on-board camera to gather photographic evidence, supplemented with pre-formatted text options. A floorplan can also be created on the PDA which orientates the rooms descriptions in the inventory report.

Once The Energy Performance Centre Assessor has completed the assessment on his PDA, it is transmitted to eTech via Wi-Fi. The SMART Inventory report generates automatically and is published on-line to eTech’s Inventory Portal, where further amendments can be made by the Inventory Clerk if required. This takes the hassle out of generating Inventories with a combined hardware and software package backed up by first class technical and customer support. As a SMART Inventory customer, you benefit from the following:

  • Free updates to SMART Inventory software sent direct to your PDA
  • Free technical phone helpline and out-of-hours email support for all Energy Performance Centre Assessors.
  • Free access to eTech’s Web Portal, providing on-line storage of Inventories generated through SMART Inventory accessable 24/7

Click here to download a sample inventory

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