Why are they called ‘feed-in’ tariffs?
Good question! This sort of tariff was first introduced in Germany in the 1990s and it applied only to power which was ‘fed in’ to the electricity grid. The tariffs in the UK apply to all the electricity the system produces, whether it is used on site or fed in to the grid, so it’s actually a misnomer (they should really be ‘production tariffs’).
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