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Changes to FIT coming sooner that we thought!

I also have emailed my mp and left a message on their voicemail at their office. What with the quantitative easing doing no good shove it into pv which works.
 
I feel some of the big guns of the solar industry need to be contacting their legal guys Monday and looking at all the legalities including taking our government to European courts regarding this.

We pay good money to MCS, REAL and others where is their represention, protection and support to their members.
 
can anyone tel me if you can sign other peoples work off can only get credited in jan so thats ballsed us up
 
Just emailed my local MP - dont know if it will do any good but I think all members should do the same.
 
I'm thinking it would be a good idea to link to this post so that they understand the devastation they are leaving behind.
 
Well at least I can take the small profits I have made from solar and diversify into the wind farm industry as per Barker's advice! Ha ha.. Typical conservatives, what's the odds on Barker having a few mates in the wind industry as well as the energy industry! Wait for them to say they inherited the fit's from the labour gov! Maybe but I have been telling customers all year that the2008 energy act came in with cross party support, if they didn't agree with it they could have slashed it straight away! Basically we are all victims of our own success and entrenpeneurship by Dropping prices so much that the customers are getting too good a return which has obviously raised a few eyebrows. This industry could return in a year or so once the dust have settled, Chinese manufactures re already producing panels at less than 70p per watt which is set to decrease further. When it returns I hope the entry levels for installers are much higher to protect it from the gold rushers! I fel like sh...t!! And might cry a little in the next few weeks! Thanks Greg!
 
Anybody that feels strongly enough about it try tweeting @ChrisHuhne and @GregBarkerMP

I was asked to use tag #solarfit in all tweets to see if we can get trending. Worth a shot.
 
just been announced on @gregBrkerMP tweet that an announcement will be posted on the DECC website by 10am Hmmmmm! keep em peeled! but its only his proposals so nothing confirmed!!
 
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From Decc's Twitter feed :-

#FITs We're waiting for the written ministerial statement to be been laid in Parliament. As soon as we hear, we'll publish.
 
Greg Bakers written statement on feed in tariffs now available at
http://www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/news/gb_fits/gb_fits.aspx
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The proposals are subject to an eight-week consultation period.
If implemented, they would introduce a new tariff for schemes up to 4kW in size of 21.0p/kWh – down from the current 43.3p/kWh. Reduced rates are also proposed for schemes between 4kW and 250kW, to ensure that those schemes receive a consistent rate of return.

Under the proposals, the new tariffs would apply to all new solar PV installations with an eligibility date on or after 12 December 2011. Such installations would receive the current tariff before moving to the lower tariffs on 1 April 2012. Consumers who already receive a FIT will see their existing payments unchanged, and those with an eligibility date on or before 11 December 2011 will receive the current rate.

He says that this date is PROPOSED..
... We are proposing that the new generation tariffs should apply from 1 April 2012 to all new solar PV installations which become eligible for FITs on or after an earlier ‘reference date’ which we propose should be 12 December 2011. Installations which become eligible for FITs before the reference date will not be affected and will continue to be eligible for the current generation tariffs...


So this is what must be lobbied to change to coincide better with 1 April 2012.
This may even be a 'give away' negotiating point.. or more like alcohol/petrol duty rises announced in a budget set-up to stop an uncontrolled rush...


The eligibility date of a project is based on it being commissioned (in working order) and having its request for accreditation received by a FIT licensee (schemes up to 50kW) or Ofgem (more than 50kW).

It used to be 'approved date' but reading the paper it clarifies the larger generation condition..

“Eligibility date” means the date from which an installation’s eligibility for FIT payments commences.

It is defined in Condition 33 of the Standard Conditions of Electricity Supply Licences, and is the later of the date:
(a) as applicable, of

(i) receipt by Ofgem of a FIT generator’s written request for ROO-FIT accreditation in a form acceptable to Ofgem (for installations with a declared net capacity of over 50kW); or

(ii) receipt by a FIT licensee of a FIT generator’s written request for MCS-certified registration (for installations with a declared net capacity of up to 50kW); or

(b) on which the eligible installation is commissioned.
...
the request for accreditation must include a Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS) certificate.

but they WILL be open to pressure from consumer groups/community projects as well as the suppliers to change this timing....

.....
However, we will consider representations made during the consultation both as to
(i) the principle of applying the lower tariff to new installations installed from a
reference date (12 December 2011) that comes before the legal implementation of
those tariffs (1 April 2012); and (ii) whether the proposed reference date should be
12 December 2011 or some other date.
d.
 
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≤4kW (new build)37.821.0
≤4kW (retrofit)43.321.0
>4-10kW37.816.8
>10-50kW32.915.2
>50-100kW1912.9
>100-150kW1912.9
>150-250kW1512.9
>250kW-5MW8.58.5*
stand alone8.58.5*

Band (kW)Current generation tariff (p/kWhProposed generation tariff (p/kWh)
 
The consultation ends on the 23rd Dec, yet the reference date is 12 Dec. Go figure. Absolute **********.
 
The consultation ends on the 23rd Dec, yet the reference date is 12 Dec. Go figure. Absolute **********.

That's joined up government thinking for you. It is effectively a 12th December cut off date, one can't work to anything other. They should set the date at 31st December pending the consultation but they have another agenda.
 

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