subject: Act Now Or Risk The Consequences Of Failing To Adopt Solar Energy [print this page] At the moment with regards to the domestic home energy market the population is split into two areas those that have converted to green energy with the second being the people that have either still to commit to it or are not interested at all. It is the purpose of this brief article to show you that there has never been a more important time to consider changing to renewable energy. One of the key areas to look at is the incentiveframework that is currently available to all domesticowners. Also the main incentive structure within theBritain is the feed in tariff which allows you to claim back money on the electric bills paid has been reducedonce ( by 50% ) and is now set to be reduced again. Now the other option to this is to continue to pay for your regular system which is set to increase year on year; and when you consider the average house energy bill increased by 18% in 2011, as you cancontemplate the future doesn't look bright forregular energy.
Another issue that should have your attention if your stilluncertain by is the pending fallout that the the UK population of conventional energy users will feel if the government their set targets on clean energy. When the comparison against the European average (13%) we are far behind with only 3% within Britain coming from renewable energy and when you know that our target is 15% by 2020 you can see we have a long way to go. So what this would mean if we miss our targets is two fold; first our energy prices will be at quite unbelievablecosts (gas especially) and also the money that would have been earmarked through savings will be firstly going into more projects such as nuclear and secondly on bulk importing of the high priced fuels. A survey conducted by the Renewable Energy Association states that Britain energy bills are set to increase an extra 60 billion a year if the United Kingdom is not able to reach its clean energy targets, there is also the obvious job losses that will result from an inability to meet our expectations within this new sector. There is currently only 110,000 people are employed in this industry. (which makes the estimated 400,000 employed by 2020 seem unrealistic)
Right at this moment every household within Britain pays a subsidy of less than 2 per year to support green energy subsidies with this expected to be closer to 9 by 2020. What you should read into this is that the government is very committed to ensuring a solar energy future. But as with everything in life their is supply and demand hence why the feeding tariff has just been cut; this is because the government were overwhelmed by an uptake of 900% in 2011 for clean energy and the factor for this was the popular nature of the feeding tariff. While currently you can still benefit from a reduced rate feeding tariff this is to be cut again, so the time to act is now. The government is soon to initiate the "Green Deal" incentive this is where they will back your loan to have clean energy systems installed into domestic properties. This could indicate the end of feed in tariffs as they will still begiving support but without an incentive.
In conclusion the one area to be sure of is that without a doubt energy costs are set to continue to rise and the other being that with the popularity and increased uptake in solar energy that the incentives will not. So crucially the time to actof the incentives could be sooner rather than later.
