Instead of buying the solar array, homeowners can lease the system with monthly payments for the equipment and a locked-in price for electricity.

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The macroeconomic picture has improved and investor confidence has found a new lease on life after Tokyo halted the deterioration of the banking system, public funds juiced up the statistics and numerous private companies began restructuring their operations.

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We Are Spartacus, an online campaign group about disabled people's views on the welfare system, analysed figures from the Department for Work and Pensions and Motability, the organisation that supplies lease cars and specialist converted vehicles to disabled people claiming the highest mobility rate of Disability Living Allowance.

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