{"id":3217,"date":"2015-10-28T11:26:05","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T11:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anytrades.co.uk\/?p=3217"},"modified":"2015-10-28T11:26:05","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T11:26:05","slug":"5-reasons-now-time-go-solar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.local-quotes.co.uk\/guides\/solar-panels\/5-reasons-now-time-go-solar\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Reasons why now is the Time to go Solar"},"content":{"rendered":"

The UK needs to have 10 million homes with solar panels if it is going to fulfil its renewable energy targets by 2020.<\/strong> That\u2019s why the government introduced the Feed-in Tariff scheme (FITs), which offers homeowners tax-free earnings on the electricity they generate. But the benefits of the scheme are about to reduce.
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In its recent review of the solar Feed-in Tariff, the government laid out plans to cut the FITs by a huge 87% in the new year, meaning that the amount homeowners will get paid per kWh of electricity will go from 12.47p to just 1.63p. Once the changes take effect in January, there will be no strong incentive to install solar panels.<\/p>\n

All is not lost, however \u2013 there is still time to take advantage of the higher rate of FITs, but you need to act quickly. The costs of solar panel installation<\/a> are lower than ever before, so now is the time to get solar panels before the FIT is cut on 1st January. Once you\u2019ve got the higher rate, you\u2019re locked into that rate for the entire 20 years you\u2019re entitled to receive the tariff, so now is the time to get solar panels.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re still deciding whether to go solar, consider the 5 main advantages to installing solar panels:<\/p>\n