a million homes with solar panels by 2015

[tim......]

(you have to read the content to find the prediction )

tim

[spuorgelgoog]

I've had a solar panel on my calculator for ages ... does that count?

Owain

[harryagain]

Solar panel news here:-

[Brian Gaff]

They must be getting desperate as one company rang me yesterday despite me being on the tpa. Brian

[spuorgelgoog]

Could have been worse - you could have been on the toilet. (smiley)

Owain

[Nightjar]

I doubt mine will be among them, despite the roof needing to be replaced soon. However, as I am not dogmatic, I will still run the figures, to see whether it has suddenly become more attractive than investing the money.

Colin Bignell

[harryagain]

You missed the boat by years by being pig headed.

[Nightjar]

My money has been better used elsewhere, but you don't seem to understand discounted cash flow or that you can do better than a building society as an investment, so you may have problems accepting that. I will only be checking to see whether the situation has changed and solar panels are attractive now they are cheaper. They were not when I last looked.

Colin Bignell

[harryagain]

The benefit is far less than it was two or three years ago. Unless you have no top limit on what you can afford to lay out and have a very large space available. Then it might pay.

[John Rumm]

Illogical - they are cheaper, and electricity is more expensive.

What you really mean, is that if he wanted to rape other energy users for subsidy, then he is too late.

[Nightjar]

The problem is Harry only thinks in terms of the subsidy and he also seems to think that it is impossible to get a reasonable return on capital without high risk, so he ignores the potential income from investing the money he spent on the PV panels instead.

As I said, I have yet to do the calculations. Now I am back from my Christmas and New Year break, I might find time to do so.

Colin Bignell