The Eligibility Date is the date on which the FIT Licensee receives a request for accreditation from the system owner. For systems under 50kWp, the installation must be MCS accredited and the application must include the MCS certificate.
Multi-installation Generators
The consultation also proposes changes aimed at multi-installation generators. This category would include councils and social landlords that install at large scale but with multiple small systems, as well as so-called "rent-a-roof" or "PV for free" schemes where an installation company puts PV on a roof, the resident benefitting from the electricity, but the installer collecting the FIT payment. Such schemes can yield efficiencies of scale, and to take this into account DECC is proposing a new tariff set at 80% of the generation tariff in the table above.
Linking with Energy Efficiency Measures
In addition to changing the tariff levels, DECC is proposing an energy efficiency requirement for FITs for solar PV. In order to be eligible to claim the tariff levels in the table above, the building owner would need to demonstrate that the building either:
- Achieves a level C or higher in an energy performance certificate (EPC) - calculated after the proposed PV installation.
- Has had all improvements implemented which are identified as qualifying for a Green Deal finance arrangement.
PV systems with an Eligibility Date after 1 April 2012 supplying buildings that do not meet this requirement would qualify for a lower rate of 9p/kWh unless the building was brought up to this level of efficiency before 31 March 2013.
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