Just had a phone call from an retired couple, been sold free solar, neighbours don't like the look of the design and have been giving her grief for around a year (so old tariff 43p). Company who installed gone burst, company who bought out bankrupt company gone burst and now been sold a third...
Over the past few weeks its would seem the general public are considering the fuel bill savings over the tariff , most people I have been in contact with do not know what the current tariff is nor is that the main reason for looking into solae panels.
Is it time for change ? fuel bills are...
Does anyone know what happens to the export tariff after the FIT period on an installation expires?
Could an installed 50kWp system carry on selling the generated electricity after the fit contract expires (ie 20 years)
Thanks for your replies in advance:yes:
A mockery has just been made of the feed in budget , as now feed in costs are being born by consumers , commercial bills are starting to filter through with a feed in tariff levy on ! what a nonsense the last 9 months of DECC sham has been
There seems to be some misinformation in the mainstream media that the post cut tariff is no more or not worth considering. The truth is that returns are in the 10-12% region in the south of the UK and as good as they were for most of last year:
Half price solar provides similar rates of return...
UK magic's up £10billion to help other countries with their debt. Of course it is a loan but will be see it all back?
BBC News - IMF doubles its lending firepower
The IMF says it has received firm commitments of more than $430bn.
The money is to help economies in trouble and...
This touches on the debate about exactly which figure the Feed In Tariff calculations are based upon (sorry!):
If we install a "Power One Aurora PVI 3.6 Outdoors 16A limited" inverter with 18 No. 250W (4.5kWp) Yingli Solar panels the Aurora configuration tool tells us the inverter is optimally...
Quick question guys.
Am I right in thinking that a normal household with oil central heating, so no storage heaters, would be better off on a standard electricity tariff as opposed to an economy 7 tariff.
Thanks in advance.
Steve.
I have had a customer phone me and he has intends to install some PV panels in the next few weeks. He then intends to remove them, rebuild the house and reinstate the panels.
No problem there.
He then asked about the tariff he can expect. Will he drop to the new build tariff or stay on...
I have a customer who wants to add to his 10kWp system we installed 3 months ago. If I add say 20kWp to give a total of 30kWp how will his feed in tariff be calculated?
Anybody got any ideas?
thanks,
Simon
Just a quick one, something i was wondering
The banding for Fits are 0-4kw, then 4kw to 10kw etc
If you install a 4kw dead on (16 x 250watt) system, who decides which bracket it goes in.
or should it realistically say, 0-4, then 4.1 to 10 kw.
do you see what im getting at:lol:
Just seen this on the BBC website. Not a lot of information on what's going to happen next though.
BBC News - Solar tariff cut plan ruled legally flawed
A few thoughts on the long term impacts of Solar installations, the feed in tariffs and the short sighted Government;
Most of the panels on the maret will work well beyond the 25 year feed in tariff, the likes of Schott and Sharp have panels that are still producing 50 years on- on this basis...
Okay, I'm sure by now we've all done some sums and we're all coming to the same conclusions. We CAN make solar work even at 21p BUT only on the ideal south facing, unshaded roof. And I'm sure we're all aware how rare that particular set up actually is. Therefore, these cuts are effectively...
I wonder if anyone has a copy of the EDF feed in tariff form that they could forward to me?
Finished an install for someone that doesn't have a computer and I told him that I would get hold of the forms for him. Unfortunately, I can't seem to download the forms off the internet. I have...
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