Generating your own electricity at home

‘Renewable microgeneration’ is the generation of your own electricity at your own home, by means of green technologies such as solar panels or wind power. You can have the satisfaction of knowing you’re running on the greenest electricity around – and Ebico offers a special package to customers to increase the benefits of microregeneration.

While initial installation can require a sizeable investment, there are grants available to help cover the costs. And once up and running, your home generation naturally reduces the amount of electricity you have to import from the National Grid, thus saving you money from then on.

To support your investment in microgeneration, and help make it more cost-effective, Ebico offer special features in the EquiPower tariff in co-operation with our energy supply partner Scottish and Southern Energy.

Solar photovoltaic (PV) microgeneration

If you are an EquiPower customer anywhere in Great Britain, and you install solar PV panels and register the installation with us, we’ll supply and fit an export meter free.  The export meter measures the amount of electricity you generate but don’t use yourself – that is, how much you export onto the electricity grid. You’ll then be paid 18p/kWh for this exported electricity.

Wind turbine, hydroelectric and combined heat & power (chp) microgeneration

When you install a wind turbine, micro hydro or micro-CHP unit as an EquiPower customer and register it with Ofgem under the Renewables Obligation (RO) then, again, we’ll supply and fit an export meter for free. You’ll then be paid 5p/kWh for all of the electricity you generate (whether you use it yourself or not) and an additional 5p/kWh for all the electricity you generate but don’t use yourself. This gives you a total payment of 10p/kWh for your exported electricity.

To find out more, call us on 0845 4560170.

Whilst home renewable generation units can be expensive to install, grants are available to cover much of the cost. For more information about the options, see www.lowcarbonbuildings.org.uk