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British Gas Has Launched Its New 'rent-a-roof' Solar Panel Deal.
The new scheme has been set up with the National Housing Federation and will give its members access to solar panels supplied by British Gas. The National Housing Federation represents 1,200 independent, not-for-profit housing associations in England and bills itself as 'the voice of affordable housing'.
British Gas will rent roofs of housing association properties, install solar panels and maintain them for 25 years. The energy company pays landlords £30 a year to rent the roof, and the tenant's electricity bills should reduce by £100 a year or more as the property benefits from energy generated through the solar panels.
British Gas makes money from the scheme by collecting money paid through the Feed-in tariff - a government scheme that enables people with certain microgeneration technologies installed (such as solar panels) to sell any unused or excess electricity produced by their system back to the national grid.
