Good Energy launched its FIT REGO Boost in October 2024, a scheme that pays small generators for the Renewable Energy Guarantees of Origin (REGO) certificates produced when their solar panels generate electricity1. The certificates are bought by energy suppliers to show that the electricity they sell is renewable1. Good Energy says that their price has risen enough that small generators can receive a worthwhile payment1.
The scheme sits alongside the feed-in tariff (FIT), the government-backed support scheme that pays more than 800,000 homes for generating renewable electricity, mainly from solar photovoltaic panels1. The FIT closed to new applicants at the end of March 2019, but that does not affect households already receiving payments, who continue to be paid for the duration of their agreement1. FIT payments are made up of a generation tariff, paid per unit of electricity generated, and an export tariff, paid for units exported to the grid, usually assumed to be 50% of generation where there is no export meter1. They are payable for up to 20 years, or 25 years for those who signed up before August 2012, are usually paid quarterly and are tax free1.
Good Energy is one of the smaller firms that chose to pay the feed-in tariff; the larger obligated licensees are British Gas, EDF Energy, E.ON Next, Octopus Energy, Ovo Energy, Scottish Power, So Energy, Utilita and Utility Warehouse1. FIT rates are set by government, so payments are the same whichever company pays them, and a household can change its FIT licensee without changing electricity supplier1.
Separately, households not signed up to the FIT can be paid for exported renewable electricity through the Smart Export Guarantee (SEG), which all energy firms with more than 150,000 domestic electricity customers must offer1. SEG payments are based on measured export rather than deemed export, companies set their own rates, and a smart meter or other meter able to measure half-hourly export is needed1.
"Good Energy launched its FIT REGO Boost in October 2024, which helps you get paid for the certificates (REGOs) produced when your solar panels generate electricity."
Why it matters for households
For a home with solar panels, income can come from more than one stream. A FIT household is paid for generation and, on deemed or metered export, under a scheme whose rates are set by government and guaranteed for the length of the agreement1. The REGO Boost adds a payment for the environmental certificates attached to that same generation, a value stream that exists independently of the FIT itself1. For a household that installed panels after the FIT closed, the SEG is the route to payment for exported units, but at rates set by the supplier rather than government, and only where export can be measured1.
The practical effect is that the certificates a solar array produces have a market value that a supplier may choose to pass on. Good Energy's stated reason for launching the scheme is that certificate prices have risen enough to make a payment to small generators worthwhile1. No figure for the payment rate under FIT REGO Boost is given in the source, and the scheme's eligibility rules, contract length and whether it is open to households on other suppliers' FIT licences have not been reported.
What happens next
From April 2026, FIT rates are adjusted each financial year according to the Consumer Prices Index rather than the Retail Prices Index, a change government said would reduce the cost of the scheme, which is paid for through household electricity bills1. Because CPI is generally lower than RPI, FIT tariffs will likely increase by less than under the previous arrangement1. New rates are published on 1 February each year by Ofgem, which sets them1.
Households wanting to understand how supplier schemes and export payments fit together can read our pages on Good Energy tariffs and export payments and on Good Energy itself, or compare options across the wider tariffs hub and the suppliers hub.
Sources1 cited
- What was the feed-in tariff? - Which?, which.co.uk