Down to earth: Halls teams up with solar power specialists

The Green Electrician was the fourth solar PV system installer in the country to become accredited from a list of in excess of 3000 and has vast experience in fitting domestic and agricultural solar PV systems of all sizes.

Fitting solar panels provides an opportunity to generate your own electricity and receive a guaranteed income from Feed In Tariffs (FIT’s) for 25 years, resulting in a relatively low risk investment that also has tax benefits.

Panels can be either ground or roof mounted and installed in both single and three phase systems.

The new FITs proposals are subject to an eight-week consultation period, but if they are implemented, tariffs could drop considerably. An under 4kW retrofit or new build could drop from 43.3p to 21p, 4-10kW from 37.8p to 16.8p, 10-50kW from 32.9p to 15.2p, 50-100kW from 19p to 12.9p and 100-250kW from 15p to 12.9p

“The new tariff levels should not put people off installing solar PV,” said Louise Roberts from Halls. “In fact it has allowed suppliers to negotiate prices resulting in the cost of equipment coming down and returns in the region of 10% still being expected.”