Good Energy HotROCs

As well as renewable electricity, we are committed to supporting renewable heat too. 75% of UK homes rely on gas for heating & cooking - this accounts for 14.5% of UK CO₂ emissions. Systems for creating renewable heat at home can reduce this figure dramatically.

Over 80,000 people across the UK have installed solar thermal panels to produce their own heat energy. We want to encourage thousands more to do the same and this is why we have introduced Good Energy HotROCS the UK’s first Renewable Heat Incentive.

How it works

HotROCs is a groundbreaking scheme that pays domestic solar thermal generators money for the heat energy they produce. By working out the angle and orientation of your installation, your geographical latitude and the capacity of your solar thermal panels, we can estimate or ‘deem’ the amount of heat you will produce and then pay you for it!

We fund the scheme through a small premium we charge to Good Energy gas customers. Our customers asked us to supply gas but there was no way we were going to start selling a fossil fuel unless it acted as a stepping stone to a renewable future and that is exactly what we are doing with HotROCs.
Good Energy HotROCs is leading the way and we are confident other energy suppliers will follow our example and introduce similar schemes, and Government will use our innovation to help shape the UK’s renewable heat policy. It happened with our HomeGen scheme so why not HotROCs!

To be eligible for the scheme we require that you sign up to Good Energy’s 100% renewable electricity and gas supply (if you use gas).

Find out if you qualify for HotROCs by looking at our general requirements and then take a look at how to join.