The Pre-Budget Report delivered a boost to the energy jobs sector yesterday after it was announced that new incentives would be made available to encourage households to be energy self-sufficient.

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Chancellor Alistair Darling announced that householders with wind turbines or solar panels on their homes who sell additional power back into the grid would receive an average of £900 a year under the "feed-in tariff" scheme, which starts in April.

As an added incentive this payment will also be tax-free.

Mr Darling also announced an extra £200 million for domestic energy-efficiency programmes through measures such as insulation, which could benefit as many as 75,000 households.

The two schemes are likely to provide a much-needed boost for energy engineers - many of whom have been struggling because of a decline in work orders from the slowdown in the property market.