This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Rejected petition Raise the Solar Export Guarantee (SEG) tariff to parity with Agricultural Solar
The SEG tariff is paid to rooftop solar homeowners is unregulated and therefore minimized by power companies. The average tariff is well below 5 pence per kWh across all utility providers, removing all incentive to generate domestic solar power. The Agricultural Feed In Tariff is over 3X this amount
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Without a mandated minimum floor tariff by Government, energy companies will continue to defer increasing the SEG tariff in line with rising energy prices as they have demonstrated since the SEG tariff was introduced in 2020.
If we want to become an energy independent nation, free from Russian oil and gas, we must incentivize homeowners to generate their own electricity by paying them what we currently pay UK farmers to export solar power generated on their land.
This petition was rejected
Why was this petition rejected?
It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.
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The rate paid to people using the Smart Export Guarantee (SEG) are set by electricity suppliers (SEG Licencees), not the Government or Parliament.
We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.