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Changes to FIT coming sooner that we thought!
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BillyH
"What angers me are all the cowboys, who use Easy MSc and the likes to just frankly skim the market"
If you get accreditation then you get it.What you do with it is up to you.Easy MCS only help you .They don't do it for you
If you get accreditation then you get it.What you do with it is up to you.Easy MCS only help you .They don't do it for you
I've been racing around like a headless chicken all day and I've been bombarded with emails from worried customers. We've set up a 40 day plan which will be thrown completely off skew by nothing more than a few days of heavy wind and rain - in November.
If Greg Barker could take a look at how his messing around is affecting us all he would be ashamed. Tory governments have never had any idea how to treat initiative and innovative tradesmen and they've screwed us all once again. Meanwhile, Tube Train drivers are earning 45k a year for riding around on their giant train sets, billions of pounds are being spent on Velodromes, Kayaking rivers and Beach Volley courts that no one will ever use and a giant stadium is being built in London that no one wants.
If Greg Barker could take a look at how his messing around is affecting us all he would be ashamed. Tory governments have never had any idea how to treat initiative and innovative tradesmen and they've screwed us all once again. Meanwhile, Tube Train drivers are earning 45k a year for riding around on their giant train sets, billions of pounds are being spent on Velodromes, Kayaking rivers and Beach Volley courts that no one will ever use and a giant stadium is being built in London that no one wants.
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Easters
I feel that all the good trades men have been let down....... Good luck monday I think alot of good installers will go bust.
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furrypants
I hope for the PV industry sake that this has been leaked on purpose to gauge the response and that the fits will not be this low. Fingers crossed.
£860 million is a tiny fraction of what the bankers got and are still getting, orders of magnitude away. The FiT is promoting growth and employment and bringing in a handsome revenue for HMRC in tax for the 25,000 jobs created so far with a tiny impact on general energy bills ( and no impact to the treasury).
The current system needs work, it's not perfect. It's too generous and provision needs to be made for the majority of people who don't have £10k + sitting idle (green deal hopefully) but >50% cuts will not help the industry.
Why are interest rates relevant to FiT payback? Low interest rates are a just another bonus for irresponsible insolvent banks so why should we suffer again and again for their mistakes?
The current system needs work, it's not perfect. It's too generous and provision needs to be made for the majority of people who don't have £10k + sitting idle (green deal hopefully) but >50% cuts will not help the industry.
Why are interest rates relevant to FiT payback? Low interest rates are a just another bonus for irresponsible insolvent banks so why should we suffer again and again for their mistakes?
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solgen
Whatever the outcome on Monday I would like to thank all of you on this forum for all the valuable advice I have received in response to some of the questions I have posted and from browsing QA's. As an engineer working for corporates most of my life, the solar PV industry finally gave me that opportunity too set up a business where I could be independant from the self important, supercilious managers who quite frankly had no idea how to run a business. I'm still on the receiving end of the same type of incompetent managing where futures are thrown into jeopardy.
I like to take an oozi to those gits! :73:
I like to take an oozi to those gits! :73:
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tom.stilwell
The company i work for has been in the PV industry for 7 years, we are currently booking work for mid febuary and have just over 1.3 million pounds worth of orders confirmed to take place. A cut like this will mean we will have to give back lots of deposits and let down many customers. I cannot believe a discrace to the industry like this can be allowed to take place, many people have invested serious amounts of time and money into what 'was' an evolving industry all of which may well turn out to be a waste! I do hope for all our sakes this will not be the case.
Good luck to all of you!
Good luck to all of you!
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feebs73
Well what can I say, I have been sitting on the fence for a bit of time whether to make the investment or not, being an electrician some of my customers have asked me to install pv for them as trust is a great form of confidence when investing 10k, being a small company it has taken a lot of money to gain the 2399 and a loss of earnings, the qms system and still not quite there. I land 4 jobs and one of my customers has just phoned me in a panic. I just don’t know what to say about it there’s no way I will install and get accessed and get the FIT all done. What a waste of time effort and trouble with the wife.
just have to wait and see.
just have to wait and see.
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alank
I am about to place an order for a 4kw system. I am now worried that it will not be installed and passed off in time. I have seen the question asked on this thread three times but it has not been answered.
How long does it take from install to completion and signing off so the still gets the current FiT payment, One week?, six weeks???? ie if it is installed next week, when will it all be passed off paper work wise?
If I am not given a set in stone guarantee by the installer that it will all be done before 8th December, I cannot go ahead with the order.
How long does it take from install to completion and signing off so the still gets the current FiT payment, One week?, six weeks???? ie if it is installed next week, when will it all be passed off paper work wise?
If I am not given a set in stone guarantee by the installer that it will all be done before 8th December, I cannot go ahead with the order.
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kate.harrison1
Alank,
We have just had ours done and the papers have all been sent off. I'm sure someone will contradict me if I am wrong but in my experience, there is no reason why the system cannot be signed off as soon as the install is complete. Mine took about a day and a half(2 on the roof and 2 electricians). You should then be given a whole bunch of papers and you can perhaps, as I did with Scottish Power, print the claim form from the internet. As long as you send all the forms they ask for including the MCS certificate which your installer should give you, you should be able to send it off the day of installation or the next day. How long it will take after that and whether there will be any deliberate stalling tactics, your guess is as good as mine!
Good luck anyway.
We have just had ours done and the papers have all been sent off. I'm sure someone will contradict me if I am wrong but in my experience, there is no reason why the system cannot be signed off as soon as the install is complete. Mine took about a day and a half(2 on the roof and 2 electricians). You should then be given a whole bunch of papers and you can perhaps, as I did with Scottish Power, print the claim form from the internet. As long as you send all the forms they ask for including the MCS certificate which your installer should give you, you should be able to send it off the day of installation or the next day. How long it will take after that and whether there will be any deliberate stalling tactics, your guess is as good as mine!
Good luck anyway.
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SRE
Well - I thought it would be a good idea to take time out of very busy schedule to see what the solar trade show had to offer. Got to Birmingham 4hours after finishing work last night and crashed without checking the forum. Spent half the day looking at gear at the trade show then got a garbled message about disasters and some info about the cuts but haven't really got the full picture until tonight.
Going up the M6 tonight we ordered 10 inverters, the rest of the roof kit we needed, cancelled a holiday we've had booked since Feb, geared up the roofer and scaffolder, sent texts to some of our customers, panels are already on order - can someone help with the weather - every one of our jobs bar 2 are slate, just got to work out to get 2.5 months wok into 4 weeks.
I forsee many bodged jobs - who gives a damn about mcs now, there a few of us who will maintain standards and many more who won't, MCS installation database crashing on a daily basis with the volume and as much time spent on the phone apologising to customers who are in the middle of planning applications as to those customers who have taken their time committing to installations who now can't have any work done at the current rate and just as much time saying to no to every other customer who has realised they have waited too long.
I know of an installer who has 3 x 50kwp systems installed but not commissioned because the DNO has been too busy to get the work done - where do they stand - bust me thinks :-(
Going up the M6 tonight we ordered 10 inverters, the rest of the roof kit we needed, cancelled a holiday we've had booked since Feb, geared up the roofer and scaffolder, sent texts to some of our customers, panels are already on order - can someone help with the weather - every one of our jobs bar 2 are slate, just got to work out to get 2.5 months wok into 4 weeks.
I forsee many bodged jobs - who gives a damn about mcs now, there a few of us who will maintain standards and many more who won't, MCS installation database crashing on a daily basis with the volume and as much time spent on the phone apologising to customers who are in the middle of planning applications as to those customers who have taken their time committing to installations who now can't have any work done at the current rate and just as much time saying to no to every other customer who has realised they have waited too long.
I know of an installer who has 3 x 50kwp systems installed but not commissioned because the DNO has been too busy to get the work done - where do they stand - bust me thinks :-(
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