Good Energy has a long history of campaigning to help grow renewable generation in the UK. We’re really proud that one in every 25 of our customers generates their own renewable power and we’re committed to getting the best deal for them.

For several years we were part of the campaign to get a feed-in-tariff  – or FiT- to reward renewable generators with a payment for their electricity. We pioneered our own, award-winning HomeGen scheme which pays generators 15p a unit for all the electricity they generate. And we were very pleased when the government recently announced the terms of its FiT scheme starting on April 1st 2010.

BUT – there is a major flaw in the scheme.

For the pioneers who installed their microgenerator before July 15th 2009 the government is offering much lower payments – just 9p a unit -  than those available to new generators, who will get up to 41.3p a unit.  We think this is wrong.

The UK microgeneration industry owes its existence to the early adopters who installed their own generation equipment because they wanted to make a difference to climate change. Many invested their life savings in such schemes because they believed it was the right thing to do – and they deserve to be recognised and rewarded for their entrepreneurial attitude, not penalised. We believe that green energy entrepreneurs should not be worse off under the new scheme.   So we’re campaigning for a change in the legislation to ensure they get the recognition they deserve.

We’re delighted that the Liberal Democrat MP Alistair Carmichael has tabled an Early Day Motion on this issue, which you can see here. And we need your support to keep the campaign momentum going.

You can support the campaign in the following ways:

1. Sign a petition – Please sign the petition about this on the Number 10 website – http://bit.ly/bgqyoE

2. Write to your MP – If you are an existing generator who will be affected by this, please write to your MP telling him about your concerns and asking him to sign the Early Day Motion. We’ve drafted a  letter you can use, which you can download here.  To find out who your MP is, please enter your post code here. Cross Party support is important, so please write to your MP whatever his political party.

If we work together, we can make a difference and help our energy entrepreneurs the fair deal they deserve for helping set the UK on the right path to reducing its carbon emissions.  www.goodenergy.co.uk