no other articles link to it . please introduce links to this page from related articles ; try the find link tool for suggestions . september 2014 homesun type privately owned industry energy saving cavity wall insulation renewables founded 2009 headquarters new oxford street london key people daniel green ceo and founding partner bill sneyd founding partner and strategy director sue welland founding partner and marketing director mark woodal non executive director josh wine coo website www.homesun.com homesun led the transformation in the uk of solar for homes citation needed with the launch of free solar in 2010 using the feed in tariff fits subsidy . working with government led subsidies homesun now offers free cavity wall insulation . the company s particular focus within the category is residential blocks of flats of three storeys and above . contents 1 the business model 2 background 3 the company 4 media 5 selling your home 6 see also 7 references 8 external links the business model edit in 2010 homesun brought free solar pv to the uk took 350 000 applications and virtually transformed the solar market overnight . to enable free solar homesun used the government led feed in tariffs and inverted the traditional business model . instead of homeowners having to find the money to buy solar panels homesun paid for the panels as well as 25 years of maintenance . in return homesun received the feed in tariff and the homeowner received free electricity . they have now used the same thinking and innovative approach to deliver the free proposition with boilers and now cavity wall insulation for blocks of 3 storeys and over . background edit after the introduction of fit scheme passed through parliament by the labour government on 1 april 2010 homesun planned to install 100 000 panels worth 1 billion over three years as part of their free solar scheme . 1 2 the new conservative government s introduction of financial caps on this scheme led to fears that the solar industry would suffer however daniel green ceo of homesun maintained that the benefits of solar energy would still be felt by ordinary households . 3 4 the homesun free solar panel installation scheme was highly commended by the microgeneration uk awards in 2011 while the company s partner carillion energy services won the commercial innovation award for project bright a privately financed end to end delivery model for installing solar pv . 5 now homesun have received funding for free cavity insulation which comes from the utilities as part of their government led eco programme . homesun has been selected to install eco measures and the funding they receive covers everything from surveys access equipment market leading insulation products and the guarantee . however just like the solar subsidies this government led funding is due to be cut march 2014 . the company edit homesun is based in new oxford street london . the company was founded upon green principles to take action against climate change . the company was co founded by daniel green and bill sneyd . sue welland a founding partner of homesun was founder of the carbonneutral company . 6 the company is accredited to renewable energy trade bodies including act on co2 the energy saving trust renewable energy association solar trade association and the micropower council . media edit homesun has featured on bbc tv and many uk news and media outlets . in 2010 bbc breakfast featured an investigation into how homesun could help uk consumers save money on their electricity bills . the company has also featured in articles on home solar energy by the financial times 7 the sunday times 8 and the guardian . 9 more recently homesun has featured in the guardian as a solution to cheap ways of improving wall insulations . 10 selling your home edit homesun leases comply to the council of mortgage lenders cml guidelines and they offer deeds of variation to keep up with the latest amendments . however in reality most lenders in the uk have additional requirements over and above the cml guidelines . homesun have a policy of refusing to consider further changes to the lease agreement drastically reducing the number of lenders that potential buyers can use . this goes against their sales patter which claims that over 7 000 free installations have been completed by homesun and in each case lenders accepted the homesun lease . 11 homesun do not provide a way of terminating the lease during its term other than by paying the buy out charge . this charge is anecdotally high compared to other providers . see also edit solar power in the united kingdom green electricity in the united kingdom references edit energy firm s 1bn solar power giveaway 5 august 2010 sky news homesun offers free solar panels to uk homes 6 august 2010 energy efficiency news government reductions to feed in tariff rates for solar pv are a bad choice 11 july 2011 architects data file solar panels on schools on hospitals in jeopardy 19 march 2011 the daily telegraph microgeneration uk awards 2011 30 june 2011 heating and ventilation news me and my partner dan morrell and sue welland 17 november 1999 the independent enlightened energy 28 january 2011 the financial times with energy prices rises the heat is on 12 june 2011 the sunday times free solar panels sound good but buying them yourself is better saturday 14 august 2010 the guardian what is the cheapest way to improve wall insulation http www.homesun.com selling a house with solar panels external links edit the homesun company official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title homesun ltd & oldid 685425603 categories companies of the united kingdomcompanies established in 2009solar power in the united kingdomhidden categories orphaned articles from september 2014all orphaned articlesall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from june 2015 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog 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