Changes to FIT coming sooner that we thought!

[powervan]

im gutted just got 2 jobs excepted straight off!!thought i was cheap!!! but could of gone for more money!! How is all supply companies going to survive! CANT BELIEVE THE RESULT OF THIS TO SO MANY COMPANIES!!!!TOTAL PLONKERS!!!

 

[gordysolar]

Im not happy i have my nic mcs assessment on tuesday 1st november and what to do if i pass pay for website or just do couple of.jobs in november to cover my expenses for training not happy at all when will we know for sure what cuts are?

 

[SRE]

SRE - it depends on whether you plan to renew your MCS, if not then there is no paperwork to do, is there

I am ever an optimist and although I do think that we will have a very quiet Winter now, panel prices are still set to drop a bit, I'll have to nip my margins and those of our subcontractors a bit and the customer won't be as well off but I think we'll still have a business - just smaller.

So I will be renewing our MCS, it took too much work and money to throw the baby out with the bath water. I've stashed a bit of cash that I was going to use in April/May when I anticipated it would be slow - I'll just have to be more careful and make it last longer.

I'm producing as much of the handover packs this week as is possible and I'm thinking it would be wise for the customer to advise the utility companies of their booked dates for installation - and as soon as possible, by registered post. Like Bigs I think our customers will have to wait until mid December for the final handover packs, struggling to think of anything else we can reasonably do ....

 

[Noshocks]

One thing that hasent been mentioned for November is the stock situation, I ordered the last kit for Novembers jobs on Friday but am concerned that so many jobs will be pulled forward that suppliers will deliver to whoever shouts loudest, I suggest this is the first call on Monday as their phones will be ringing off the hook.

 

[Richard]

Can anyone confirm if this information is correct yet? Any official press releases or just rumour? Thanks

 

[GaryM]

Monday will be the day for confirmation.

 

[grandfortune]

and how is this happening, in parliment can we see it or get a live feed via twitter or something like that?

 

[GaryM]

Not sure but I'll be checking Twitter and logging in here at regular intervals.

 

[langstroth2]

There's always the DECC twitter feed (deccgovuk) - although I imagine the news will be one here and other forums pretty quickly!

 

[dingledong]

i cant see these working .as in 10 years time the leccy board isnt going to want to buy your electric as they want to sell there's or am i just a pessamist

 

[solarfred]

Parliamentary written statements will be made after 15.30 on Monday so expect to hear something after then.

 

[moggy1968]

we're doomed, doomed I tell ye

 

[Ramjam]

All I ask is that installations booked prior to the announcement (as in deposits registered with REAL) are eligible for the higher rate regardless of the installation date. We have an order book that will take until mid February to complete, we are training new installers all the time and would be bringing them forward but we can't get everyone installed by 8th December by any means.

I have written to Virginia Graham at REAL asking her to lobby for this. I guess there are plenty of you honest, established installers who like us have a very large order book and are unwilling to rush an installation. This small amendment will enable us to serve our customers in the manner which they rightly expect.

I don't mind the 21p, the slow down would be appreciated to be honest, we've always planned for the slowdown next April, bringing it forward does threaten us but I think we would survive if it happened. I'd get rid of the 3 registered apprentices (so much for the government's plans for young people), I'd lay off a couple of roofers and not hire the extra electrician that I'm currently advertising for.

If they slash into the rate and bring forward the date then the damage to consumer confidence in renewable subsidies would be shattered. A new rate in April as originally planned is fine by me but the 8th December is just rubbish.

I guess it's all just to make us feel better about what they announce on Monday but creating panic in the industry won't help anyone. Who voted these clowns in anyway?......oh yeah, nobody, it's a coalition of second and third place election losers!!!!! Public schoolboy twits playing with our lives, remember the same bunch have the keys to the nuclear bombs!

 

[UNG]

might as well go do something else now, conservatives destroying the working man's living again, reminds me of Margaret Thatcher's Govt.. D*cks

Funny I seem to remember getting my first decent pay packet when Mrs Thatcher came to power instead of labours draconian minimal wage increases of the late 70's.
Or is your complaint that conservative governments don't use the labour parties "Viv Nicholson" system of economics

 

[UNG]

Who voted these clowns in anyway?......oh yeah, nobody, it's a coalition of second and third place election losers!!!!! Public schoolboy twits playing with our lives, remember the same bunch have the keys to the nuclear bombs!

Thanks for the information as I thought it was a coalition of first place and third place and Clown Brown in second place trying to claim squatters rights on number 10

As for the nuclear keys it's much better with them than Labours bunch of career failure misfits