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Fair Play for Green Pioneers
Feb 11, 2010
The Department of Energy and Climate Change intends to reward generators of renewable energy - Solar, Wind, Hydro etc - with a guaranteed price for the electricity they produce: the Feed In Tariff. This will come into effect in April 2010. However the regulations will be such that that owners of self-built renewable energy systems will be excluded from these rewards even though these are the very people who pioneered home produced electricity. To assure a fair reward for these green pioneers, please sign the petition to 10 Downing St.
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/GreenPioneers.
For example, this 20-foot waterwheel generates 5.5kw - enough electricity to power two houses 24 hours a day. Under the proposed regulations it will be ineligible for the Feed In Tariff. http://s990.photobucket.com/albums/af26/brianfaux/Waterwheel/