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Are you making your excess energy pay?

HOW GREEN IS YOUR HOME?

More and more of us are adopting ways to generate our own electricity, be it through solar PV (photovoltaics) panels, wind turbines or other means. Very often this results in a surplus of electricity that we can sell back to the grid, so it’s important to know how much you’ll be paid for that. Step in the Smart Export Guarantee (SEG). The SEG was introduced by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) in January 2020 to replace the Feed-in Tariff (FIT) scheme, which closed in March 2019. It is an incentive scheme that ensures small-scale generators of renewable electricity are paid for the electricity

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