Another tory U turn
Councils are voting through plans for ?menacing? solar farms that blight the countryside because they are so afraid of being taken to court by developers, a minister has admitted.
Don't get it, a recently built school has a solar farm on its roof, but its been turned into a bit of a learning resource, but of course as it ages who will pay to keep it up to date one wonders. Brian
Complete drivel. Locally, in Somerset, two have recently been turned down by the planners for sound planning reasons. Planning appeals are not "Taken to court" but are conducted by an Independent Inspector. Of course there is the possibility of Judicial Review but it is uncommon in planning matters.
Nobody. It is unlikely to need any repairs and if it does, it will have a five years guarantee and the FIT payments will make it self financing anyway. Solar panels have a life of around 25-30 years.
Ah, more theft from the rest of us. Mere legalised banditry.
Just a thought. a friend returned from a touring holiday in France and mentioned that over there if it doesnot move and can get some sun it probably has solar cells on it.. Seems that this is a common problem!
Brian
The FIT assumes a life of 25 years, but very few installations have been around long enough for anybody to confirm that is realistic. I also suspect that the suppliers fail to mention that the output will typically drop by 5% in the first 12 months and an average of about 1% a year over the expected life.
Colin Bignell
You don't think small boys will throw stones at it and run away?
They will be getting 0.15/Kwh. Normal price for electricity in a year or so. And they will be reducing their electricity bill to the council tax payer.
So you got your fingers in gear before your brain again.
Only if they do last that 25 years. You don't get your investment back after 5 as you have claimed
so they say
tim
It's called common sense. Acommodity we are short of round here.
This article isn't about solar panels on roofs.
It's about solar panels in football-pitch sized fields
tim
A similar picture in Germany, where the Green agenda has already produced some of the highest electricity prices in Europe. They rose by
11% last year alone.Colin Bignell
How old is "recently"?
I wonder if that learning will be properly balanced. "Sorry, children the sun isn't shineing today so the white boards or computers aren't working" or "Sorry children, as the sun hasn't shone for the last week the School Fish have suffocated as the pump and filter haven't been able to run".
Provided as part of the learning they include all the costs and implicatons of intermitantcy, the simple fact at night Solar PV doesn't produce anything and that "night" in winter starts about an hour before peak demand maybe some good education will come of it. But I very much doubt any of the above will be mentioned, just our solar panels have "saved" x kWhrs of electricity... B-(
visions of compo and clegg.
Are you?
The FIT rate they get depends on when the installation was "completed". I'm still amazed that 50,000 or so Solar PV instalations where "completed" in a few weeks before the FIT rates dropped was it late last year or was it the year before.
They are generator, why should they be paid retail rates? Pay the wholesale rate, yes I know that bounces up and down massively in half hour intervals but there will be a longer term mean or insist on "smart metering".
Well as you don't understand intemittancy or renewable energy either you wouldn't be a good teacher then?
Tell us again how your lights are powered after dark, Harry?
Battery?
I have posted links many times. Clearly you don't read them.
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