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12 years ago
FIT slashed
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12 years ago
Excellent news. Pity they don't make it retrospective.
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12 years ago
It is to everyones interest that the panel prices come down to as cheap as possible to everyone. As I see it the current subsidy is just encoraging manufacturers to keep the panels priced high, and spread unhealthy bonuses in the pockets of ex-double glazing salesmen.
I don't see a lot of difference material handling wise between solar panels and flat panel TV sets. Perhaps a redundant factory or two of Phillips can be converted?
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12 years ago
+1
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12 years ago
Good. It was robbing from the poor to give to the rich. Shame it wasn't completely abolished.
Philip
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12 years ago
Not bothered, although I would be amused if certain individuals lost it.
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12 years ago
Watch and wait... its coming.
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12 years ago
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I hope they now also reduce (or even abolish) the 6% surcharge that's being added to the energy bills to cover stuff like FIT.
Cash
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+1
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The way it works is that the distribution companies are forced to pay over the odds to the FITTers.
And so bills have to rise..I am not sure there is a fixed surcharge - its just that te companies are having to raise prices becaise
- gas is more expensive
- coal is taxed
- renewables are mandatory and cost 2-10 times more
- the nuclear that we have paid for 40 years ago is now coming off line.
- maintaining the backup plant for the renewables is now expeniove as well..
- with Germany's nuclear plant now offline we are having to take up the slack by running more expensive coal as well. Germany's decision added about 10% to everyone's bill. Its good for our balance of payments as we are now moving towards net electricity exports, BUT it means higher prices.
If we get a cold winter, lord knows if the EU mainland will be able to cope.
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12 years ago
ditto, they missed an opportunity for common sense to dictate over pure greenwash and greed.
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12 years ago
The word is 'leech'.
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12 years ago
In message , harry writes
Until we come round with an angle grinder
we know who you are, we know where you live
... going out this weekend?
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12 years ago
Have you looked up "elite" in a dictionary?
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12 years ago
Why? The bottom has just been knocked out of the market.
Except that actually getting a system installed before 12th Dec might be quite tricky with all the accredited Solar PV firms fully booked up...
4/5ths of bugger all. From the article linked to at the start of this thread:"As a result, figures from Ofgem show the amount of solar power installed in the UK has increased dramatically, from 30 megawatts (MW) before the subsidy started in 2010 to 321MW by October this year."
321MW installed capacity with UK deamnd of around 40,000MW so about 0.8%.Less energy that we have used from oil for hot water and some space heating lately all summer.
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12 years ago
Oversupply in the panel market already, strangely enough PV and double/ triple glazing seem to be same people...
Cheers Adam
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12 years ago
and a capacity factor of around 10% so 0.08% overall
In what ? 6 months?
An average of 600 watts?
And that was the summer.
So an average of 300 watts over the year?
Its about 300 litres of oil innit?
Harry has saved the planet from burning four car tankfuls of diesel.
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12 years ago
plastic shirt, greasy smile..
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12 years ago
And "completed" means installed and registered.
Chris
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12 years ago
I nearly did. But why waste all that money on a new car when the old one works fine?