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Taken from DECC.GOV.UK The Feed-in Tariffs (FITs) scheme was introduced on 1 April 2010, under powers in theEnergy Act 2008. Through the use of FITs, DECC hopes to encourage deployment of additional small-scale (less than 5MW) low-carbon electricity generation, particularly by organisations, businesses, communities and individuals that have not traditionally engaged in the electricity market. This will allow many people to invest in small-scale low-carbon electricity, in return for a guaranteed payment from an electricity supplier of their choice for the electricity they generate and use as well as a guaranteed payment for unused surplus electricity they export back to the grid. FITs work alongside the Renewables Obligation (RO) which is currently the primary mechanism to support deployment of large-scale renewable electricity generation and the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) which, when implemented, will support generation of heat from renewable sources at all scales.