Britmet Tileform Ltd Tel: 01295 250998

Spital Farm Offices Fax: 01295 271068

Thorpe Mead Industrial Estate Email: britmettileform@hotmail.com
Banbury Website: www.britmet.co.uk
Oxon
OX16 4RZ
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BRI T ME T TI LE F O RM L TD NE W I N T E G R AL S O L AR S YS TE M
Introduction of an electricity Feed-in Tariff in the UK
The UK Government has announced the introduction of feed-in tariffs (FITs) - the “Clean Energy
Cashback” scheme – as from 1st April 2010. The scheme incentivises small scale, low carbon electricity generation by household-
ers, communities and businesses - the “generators” - and works alongside the Renewables Obligation (RO) and the Renewable
Heat Incentive (RHI) for the generation of heat from renewable sources, which is applicable as from April 2011. The scheme is
expected to trigger a small scale electricity revolution, supporting over 750,000 small scale low carbon electricity installations by
2020 and will have saved 7 million tonnes of carbon dioxide.

With this in mind Britmet Tilefrom Ltd Have introduced Integral Solar System
their new integral Solar Roof tile, utilising the panel
system and eave to ridge systems, backed By the BBA
as low as 5°

Britmet Tileform Ltd can offer a full roofing solution and

site survey incorporating the topography of the site
involved and best solution practice.

Please see our integral system

The Government has set the Tariffs through consideration of technology costs and electricity generation expectations at different
scales to deliver an approximate rate of return of 5 - 8%, or approximately 7 – 10% if indexing is taken into account, for well sited
installations. Accordingly, the tariffs that are available for new installations will “degress” each year (only for new installations from
that point forward) to reflect predicted technology cost reductions. However, any individual installation, once starting to receive a
tariff at a certain level, will continue to receive the same generation tariff level throughout its entire support period of 25 years un-
der the FIT scheme for Solar PV (and 20 years for anaerobic digestion, hydro and wind generators). The scheme will be reas-
sessed and subject to review in the future.

The FIT tariff details for Solar PV are:

Tariff level for new installations in period (p/kWh) [NB

Technology Scale Tariff lifetime (years)
tariffs will be inflated annually]

Year 3:
Year 1: 1.04.10- Year 2: 1.04.11-
1.04.12-
31.03.11 31.02.12
31.03.12
≤4 kW (new
PV build) 36.1 36.1 33.0 25

PV ≤4 kW (retrofit) 41.3 41.3 37.8 25

PV >4-10kW 36.1 36.1 33.0 25

PV >10 - 100kW 31.4 31.4 28.7 25

PV >100kW - 5MW 29.3 29.3 26.8 25

Standalone sys-
PV tem 29.3 29.3 26.8 25

By way of illustration, a 4kW installation of SolarEmpower polycrystalline panels would produce Clean Energy Cashback scheme
revenues and savings of around £1,520 p.a.(assuming that half of the electricity generated is consumed onsite and half exported).
This represents a return of over 8% on the typical cost of a SolarEmpower PV installation, without even considering the additional
benefit of the rates being linked to the RPI over the term of the 25 year contract and the fact that these revenues are free of in-
come tax as regards domestic properties generating electricity mainly for their own use.

For more information please contact Britmet Tileform Ltd at the below address.

Britmet Tileform Ltd, Spital Farm Office, Thorpe Mead Industrial Estate, Banbury, Oxon, OX16 4RZ
Tel: 01295 250998 Fax: 01295 271068
Solar Panel Solar Integral Panel

Roof Before North Slope Roof after

South slope roof with brackets

ready to mount solar panels

PV panel specification

Plug and Play cable connectors

 System Type <4kW Retrofit (A) <4kW New build (B) <2kW Retrofit (C) <3kW Retrofit (D)

GCBS Rate £ 41.3 pence per kWh 36.1 pence per kWh 41.3 pence per kWh 41.3 pence per kWh

kW system 4 4 2 3

Installed system cost £ £ £ £

System size in kW 4.000 4.000 2.000 3.000

Installed price ex vat £18,000.00 £17,000.00 £8,700.00 £13,500.00

VAT @ 5% £900.00 £850.00 £435.00 £675.00

Total £18,900.00 £17,850.00 £9,135.00 £14,175.00

Output kWh p.a. 3,000 3,000 1,500 2,250

Onsite consumption % kwH % kwH % kwH % kwH

or exported to grid
Onsite electricity 75% 2,250 75% 2,250 50% 750 75% 1,686
consumption
Exported to grid 25% 750 25% 750 50% 750 25% 563

100% 3,000 100% 3,000 100% 1,500 100% 2,250

Revenues & savings £ £ £ £

year 1
Electricity generated 1,239.00 1,083.00 619.50 929.25

Saving own 292.50 292.50 97.50 219.38

consumption

Electricity cost 0.13 pence per kWh 0.13 pence per kWh 0.13 pence per kWh 0.13 pence per kWh

Export bonus paid 22.50 22.50 22.50 16.88

Bonus pence 0.03 pence per kWh 0.03 pence per kWh 0.03 pence per kWh 0.03 pence per kWh

Revenues and 1,554.00 1,398.00 739.50 1,65.50

savings £
Immediate % p.a.
Return to customer

Year 1 VAT 8.63% 8.22% 8.50% 8.63%

recovered
Year 1 VAT not 8.22% 7.83% 8.10% 8.22%
recovered
 Total inflation linked £ 54,105.63 £49,154.29 £25,136.29 £40,579.22
revenues over 25 yrs
Average gross 11.45% 11.01% 11.01% 11.45%
annual % return over
25 yrs
Estimated rat of RPI 3.00% 3.00% 3.00% 3.00%
inflation p.a.

Estimated rated of 5.00% 5.00% 5.00% 5.00%

energy cost inflation
Panel Efficiency

First 10 years 100% 100% 100% 100%

Next 10 years 90% 90% 90% 90%

Final 5 years 80% 80% 80% 80%

Inverter Protection Settings SMA Sunnyboy 1100DE

Automatic protection operates at: -

Operating voltage grater than 253 volts phase to neutral
Operating voltage less than 207 volts phase to neutral
Operating frequency grater that 50.5 Hz
Operating frequency lower than 47 Hz
Loss of mains
The calculations substantiate the design of support members and fixings for Britmet
Tileform Ltd profiles in respect of their capacity to carry PV solar panels.

Wind loading on the mounted PV panels is calculated on accordance with BRE digest
489 ‘wind loads on roof based photovoltaic-systems’ Calculations are provided for the
continuous Z support sections to each edge and also the shear strength of the sheeting
nails subject to uplift. Downwards loads along the bottom edge fixings are transferred
directly into the timber battens below.

Britmet Tileform Results

Britmet Tileform were tested for the following: -

TEST RESULTS

The section utilisation is less PASS

than 1.0
The deflection is less that the PASS
allowance

For full detailsof the above tests please contact Britmet Tileform on 01295 250998 or
contact via email britmettileform@hotmail.com