I have one of their systems installed - will I still get my feed-in tariff payments from the government?
They also pocket the export tariff (payments for units sent to the national grid) worth around £80 a year.
It should cut the school's carbon footprint by around 1.5 tonnes and provide £1,500 in savings and feed-in tariff payments each year for 25 years.
The focus will be on making the scheme more "joined-up" with other green schemes, including the feed-in tariff payments for people with solar panels and a renewable heat incentive scheme launching for householders next year.
The Monitor deal would reduce hospitals' income by £1.2bn by applying a 1.9% cut to tariff payments, forcing them to save 3.8% of their entire budget by being more efficient – a target hospitals say is completely unrealistic.
The government began to row back on its commitment on subsidies to households with solar panels in 2011, scaling down dramatically the 'feed-in tariff' payments available, which created turmoil in the market.
He blamed the sharp downturn in NHS finances on rising demand, trusts having to spend £1bn-£1.5bn extoa to hire more staff and changes to the "tariff" – payments hospitals receive for treating patients – which will cost them about £1bn a year.
Pressure group 35 Percent – which campaigns for the borough-wide policy of 35% affordable housing to be enforced in Elephant and Castle – estimates that, in the six biggest schemes in the area, developers have avoided paying £265m in off-site affordable housing tariff payments required by policy.
The majority of installations are grouped near the 4 kWpeak threshold, which can be explained as installations over 4 kWpeak have more complex connection arrangements, as well as lower feed-in tariff payments [29].
Both systems use pay-for-performance and reimbursement payments, but the NHS much more than the German system supplements tariff payments with pay for performance.
