Freetricity is a company that provides residential
solar power systems under the
feed-in tariffs in the United Kingdom
A feed-in tariff is when payments are given by energy suppliers if a property or organisation generates their own electricity using technology such as solar panels or wind turbines and feeds any surplus back to the grid. In the United Kingdom, t ...
. It was started by
Ben Way and Paul Williams who met on ''
The Secret Millionaire''.
It is reported that the company has access to between $50 million and $700 million in funding for the UK market. They are registered under the Renewable Energy Assurance Ltd's Renewable Energy Consumer Code (REAL).
In 2012, the company entered the
biomass heating system and
heat pump market under the
Renewable Heat Incentive scheme.
They opposed the government ''
Feed-in Tariff'' (FIT) cuts, in 2011.
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Solar energy companies