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[infinity]

Just had a call today to supply a quote to install onto a local college roof, new block built for classrooms and they want the solar installed to equal the amount of CO2 the rooms create. Only trouble is not done a large install yet so may have to throw it away, or take the jump forward! scary

 

[Energetic]

I'd say go for it, you will find support from good experienced wholesalers if unsure and also on here. Carbon credits may be the future of PV and renewables...

 

[SRE]

At the risk of depressing myself further - I'm nearly through my paperwork and going to start marketing again next week. I've got one job to quote for next week and that's it - is it getting any better???

 

[dansk]

I thought your lack of forum visits were coz you were busy!! - not a jot here, got 3 outstanding and i thought 2 were going to come in to roost, but not yet - boo hoo.

 

[JD6400]

We turned away a 10kw on Wednesday and a 4 kw on Monday , it has been on average 1 system every fortnight that I have passed on to others since December , but that makes 5 in the last three and a half weeks ?
Everyone has evoked the discussion with my other director , of have we made the right decision on holding off renewing until there is some stability and true clarity in the market ?

 

[Somecamel]

There must still be an interest out there. Just checking my Google Analytics- had 46 visits since March- 3rd

 

[dansk]

There just suppliers looking for new customers! well it must be the case for me judging by how many emails we get a day from solar suppliers - so many in fact that it irritates me.

 

[Gavin A]

dear dansk

I am glad to be finding that you are in the market for solar PV panels. We are a supplier of solar PV panels from China and are most interested in your proposal for being our partner in Europe. etc etc etc

 

[dansk]

yeah i like it - cheers irritating! even on the forum now..lol ;-)

like this one - ends with Brenda?

Dear Sir or Madam,

Thank you so much for your time to learn about our solar panel brackets.

Would you pls tell us: which kind of pv mount system is the best-selling in your country ? Ground or Roof?

Waiting for your reply.

Many Thanks & Best Regards

Brenda

 

[SolarCity]

Yeah, we got bloody loads from China:

They normally start with something like;

"Hello friend I am happy to bring you into good mood today"

and end with something like;

"I am delighted to hear your proposals for our products in your moment"

etc etc etc

 

[edexlab]

The company I sub to are dead , have 2 jobs booked in both Housing association ,no genuine enquiries for 3 weeks now
I've been talking to several of our recent customers and they all have the same fear that if the gov should win the supreme court appeal then they might lose the tarriff retrospectively, and some also said that they wouldn't advise any friends to go ahead as it is so uncertain as to what will happen
So in my view with this kind of uncertainty and lack of confidence in the tarriff system amongst potential clients even with price drops its going to be a very difficult sell for the quality installers , I also think that with the recent mad rush in November ,not so much before March the quality of lots of these installs all over was poor and this will have a negative effect , I've been asked to go to a few other installers jobs now to give an opinion on whether or not the job was done properly

The best one was a console job 4000tl 16 sanyo 250's literally the other side of the hedge to our job with the same equipment
we had quoted for this customer earlier as i've done 5 in the same road , but by the time he'd decided we were booked up.
we installed at the same time systems were commissioned on the same day ,2 weeks later he rings me
here's how the 2 compared
our job
28m 10mm swa trenched
meter installed next to inverter
modules all bonded and earthed to rod
fitted and commissioned works as expected
customer happy

Their job
90 metres of 6.0mm swa , 8 metres of 6.0mm T&E inside
circuit on 50A Mcb gen meter in house no isolator at mains position
no bonding to modules at all (TL)
oversized console (Renusol 4.2)for the panels
system turned off minutes after turning on and this happened every 5mins after restarting
no main equipotential bonding carried out on property
certificate (with numerous other errors) says otherwise

In the first month their system had done less than a third of our customers and the meter showed less than that and lagged the inverter display by 22 kwh .

Incidently they got around the volt drop issue by ringing the Dno and getting permission to change the parameters
This type of installer will for the short term at least will be competing for the same jobs as us and will probably win some and bodge them equally as well , then word gets around and joe public thinks Pv is nothing but trouble
I don't think its the end of pv but things are going to get a lot worse before they get better for us installers.

 

[cbw]

Hoo bloody rah,.......

2 proper enquirys today!!!!

Not getting my hopes up though!

Passed a genuine 10Kwh to another local company last week....(Must do my G59)

 

[SolarCity]

G59 is pretty straightforward - it tends to be more straightforward than it used to be depending on what the DNO ask for. Next time you get a G59 job you should speak to the DNO and they'll let you know what you need.

 

[SRE]

OMG we've actually got a job for next week - I'm nearly wetting myself with excitement!!!

 

[dansk]

Snap! -