Plain-English answers
for governance-grade decisions.
Trustees carry personal responsibility for decisions made on behalf of an organisation. This hub is designed to give you the exact information you need — without the marketing gloss — to bring a recommendation to your board.
Year 9 Exit Option
After the 8th anniversary of the Supply Start Date, give three months' notice to stop purchasing. The system stays on your roof to year 25 and SEED sells the output to the grid. Written into the agreement, not granted by goodwill.
How the Rate Works
We describe the rate as 'fixed' because it's set at signing and locked into your contract for 25 years — never moving with volatile wholesale markets or at SEED's discretion. The single permitted adjustment is an annual escalator of UK CPI plus 1%, published in the contract before you sign.
Maintenance & Performance
Full maintenance, monitoring and performance commitments are written into the agreement for the duration of the term — there are no surprise invoices, and trustees never carry the operating burden.
The questions every responsible board will ask.
Below are the six questions that come up at every trustee meeting. We've answered each in the language your governance documents already use.
Download — Legals: Key Point Summary (PDF)A plain-summary guide drawn from SEED's standard 25-year agreement — no email required.
We exist to make this decision easy to defend at any future trustees' meeting.
Every clause, schedule and warranty is drafted to be defensible: by the trustees who sign it today, and by the trustees who inherit it ten or twenty years from now. If you can't explain a clause to a new lay trustee in two minutes, we've drafted it wrong.
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Send us a recent bill, the building address and any constraints. We'll come back with a site-specific opening kWh rate and a draft agreement your solicitor can review.