subject: How Solar Panels can Benefit Social Housing [print this page] How Solar Panels can Benefit Social Housing
Social housing is at the core of our care and welfare system in the United Kingdom. With recent news that local authorities and councils can profit from the feed-in tariffs from solar energy installation, administrator's planners and managers will see fundamental costs reduce if they go green.
It is expected that the government drive to motivate councils and local authorities to adopt green energy and renewable energy resources will have a profound effect on how the both the private and statutory sector can initiate more effective social housing to their tenants and reduce overall costs.
As well as keeping to an eco-friendly benchmark, Solar panels systems offer a tool for both creating an eco-friendly environment and a gateway to savings on fuel costs. They will even create second revenue.
For businesses at the planning stage of a social housing project it will not only mean an adherence to government policy but it will add a security to the overall tenure and investment.
Eco-friendly government targets
By considering outlets for renewable resources at planning stage organisations can be safe in the knowledge they are following guidelines to meet green energy targets. If a new project does not fit with current government policies and legislation it may mean renovation to meet targets will need to be done in the future and that could mean a great deal more expense.
Social Housing Investment
Properties are more likely to rise in value if energy resources are in place at build stage. The government has set a date of 2015 to ensure all old homes have the basic green energy measures through refurbishment. From 2016 all home will be built to new zero carbon standards. Seven million homes will have upgraded to significantly improve the energy performance by 2020.
Reduced Utility costs
Organisations in the private sector private sector are more likely to be attractive to local authority contractors by presenting an eco-friendly environment for residents, and because their is the capacity to offer housing with reduced costs.
Savings on Electricity Bills
Bills are significantly reduced with solar panels electricity. This means budgets normally ring-fenced for fuel costs can be used for other aspects of the care system. In the long term this is adding to the quality of care given.
Reduced Maintenance
Maintenance of solar roof panels is very simple. In fact they barely need any maintenance at all which in turn reduces costs of long term utilities.
A Second Revenue for Social housing
Now the government has made the benefits from the feed-in tariff accessible to businesses managers in social Housing can now enjoy the profits from a return from simply using solar roof panels. Not only will businesses be able to collect income from selling surplus energy back to the national grid, they will also receive a minimum payment for all electricity generated by your solar panel system. The current rate is 41.3p for every kilowatt produced and 44.3p for every surplus unit produced which is fed back into the national grid.
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