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Many households are deciding to take the plunge with renewable energy and are finding out how beneficial things like heat pumps and a solar panels installation can be. Article Body: Many households are deciding to take the plunge with renewable energy and are finding out how beneficial things like heat pumps and a solar panels installation can be. Not only can these high tech solutions to energy needs save you money on your bills, they can also make you money, guaranteed for 25 years. Here's how. Saving money A solar panels installation will start working for you as soon as it is commissioned. If you have chosen solar thermal, you will start enjoying the free hot water that the system produces on the first day whether it is sunny or not. If you are going for the more expensive photovoltaic solar panels installation will see you generating your own electricity straight away. A typical solar thermal system will save in the region of £120 per year and photovoltaic's savings will be in the region of £300 each year. Making money A solar panels installation will not only save you money, but will also generate cash for you year in year out and guaranteed for 25 years. The Feed in Tariff, which came into effect in 2009, pays households a rate per kWh produced to thank them for generating clean energy. The household gets this money whether they use the energy or not, but if they don't use it and export a proportion back to the grid, they also get paid per unit sent back. Added to the savings on the energy bills this can add up to an overall saving of well over £1000 each year, and that's guaranteed for 25 years. Currently this is only available for electricity producing technologies such as photovoltaics, but from next April 2012 there will also be a renewable heat incentive payment, which will apply to solar thermal and other heat producing technologies such as heat pumps. Suitability Properties looking for solar panels installation will need to have a south or south-east /south-west facing roof space free from velux windows, vents and chimneys of about 3m squared. Panels don't need bright sunshine to work, just light, so the daylight hours are more important than the climate.
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