Welcome to the new Freetricity blog, I would like to take this opportunity to welcome you to the exciting new world of energy independence.
Freetricity was born from a simple idea, to allow as much of the UK as possible to benifit from the ultimate free energy source, the sun.
When I first heard about the new government scheme it sounded too good to be true, the government offering a feed in tariff which would allow us to give away free electricity and install free solar panels; we ran the figures, and re ran the figures, it worked; the capital cost of the panels would be paid for by us, and then over the next 25 years we would take a small yearly government grant to cover the cost of the panels and make a small return on our investment.
When we started out we thought it would be quite simple to achieve this, but we soon learnt that the process is very complicated, it can take upto three months just to get all the documents in place to be able to lease the 'air' above a persons roof......and why do we lease the air above your roof; well apparently the lawyers think this is the best way to describe what we are doing....only lawyers could come up with leasing air!
So here we are 6 months after we have launched we have had nearly six thousand applications; but annoyingly the criteria is so tight we have to reject a lot of our applications, not because we don't want to give away free electricity; but because the cost of solar installs is so high we have to make sure that our systems are in almost perfect locations, even a chimney or a skylight can make a difference! But the good news is that as the price of solar drops our criteria should also become more flexible, so it maybe that soon even if you have had a roof rejected we will be able to offer you free solar in the future....
Our goal is to make solar a common part of the landscape of UK, one of the first questions we are normally asked is, why do you want to install solar in the UK, as its not very sunny! Its true we do have more than our fair share of grey days; but believe it or not solar panels do not need direct sunlight to work efficiently, as long as there is light they will be generating power; in fact the largest solar market in the world Germany has the same amount of sunlight as the UK!
So welcome to Freetricity we hope you will choose to get your free solar electricity from us, we are a professional team with professional installers; join us on the journey to electricity independence!
If you want to apply for free solar goto www.freetricity.net or if you know anybody with commercial roof space who wants free electricity they can apply at www.freetricityenergy.com
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